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mkrishnan

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Jan 9, 2004
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I know at least one of these has been discussed in the distant past, but I haven't seen answers, so I was wondering if anyone knew anything about either of them:

1) For Firefox: has any written a plug-in that might change some of the strange key configs, such as using ctrl-pgdown and -pgup to change tabs, which do not appear in the keyconfig menu?

Also, does anyone else have the problem that with a lot of themes, the right hand vertical scrollbar for the main page disappears? I get this with most of the non-fully-skinned themes -- I get the normal Aqua scrollbar with the default theme, and I get the Noia custom one for the Noia theme, and the custom one for LittleFox. But if I use any custom theme without a custom scrollbar, it seems like I lose that scrollbar. When I load a page longer than one screen height, I don't see the scrollbar at all. If I click there, then I get a solid grey area where it should be, with no buttons or scroll handle. Anyone else experience this?

2) For Safari: I got used to playing with AdBlock on Firefox recently, installing it on several lab computers I use, and now I'm missing some of its functionality vis-à-vis PithHelmet. Particularly, sometimes when ads don't block automatically in Safari, I have a lot of trouble getting their address without going to a source window. If I right click, there's no "copy image location to clipboard," and if I open the image in a new tab, a lot of the time I seem to get the link destination in the address bar, not anything I can use as a block text. And if I chose the block option PithHelmet puts in the contextual menu, then I end up blocking all the legitimate graphics on the page too.

I had been enured to seeing ads because I wasn't reading a lot outside my usual websites, and they were all adblocking fine, but recently I've been using google news, and ending up at a lot of news sites I don't normally go to, and now I'm getting inundated by ads again...

Thanks! :)
 
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