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Is there a way to turn off that red up and down arrow that flashes on screen
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Very cool, works. However, I like the quick jump. I wish it would display on the iphone in safari.
I really never mucked with the settings like that in ie. Very nice.
Do you like the jump down as much as the jump up?
After either jump to the extreme, what's most commonly your next action?
Desktop it's a non issue and would be nice to turn it off. Mobile devices, down is more useful than up as touching the masthead in safari brings you to the top.
It is becoming very annoying, it is making me not want to scroll up or down.
Why can't it either be there all the time or not at all, its because it is flashing on and off it is so annoying.
Why can't it either be there all the time or not at all, its because it is flashing on and off it is so annoying.
If i widen the page i can make those annoying red arrows go off the side of the screen so they are hidden.
Does anyone know if i can set that as a default setting for this site so everytime i visit this site i don't have to mess about widening the page.
Does anyone know if i can set that as a default setting for this site so everytime i visit this site i don't have to mess about widening the page.
I've got so used to using them now that it annoys me when I go to other sites and can't find them. 
A comparison
The green-on-white jump widget in Google Product Forums e.g. at https://productforums.google.com/fo...-feature-feedback-and-suggestions/q3hcZFh1NVE is interesting. Less garish, less blunt than what's here; and less volatile (it stays on screen).
I like it, but it's a novelty, and a wonder whether the novelty will wear thin.
The green-on-white jump widget in Google Product Forums e.g. at https://productforums.google.com/fo...-feature-feedback-and-suggestions/q3hcZFh1NVE is interesting. Less garish, less blunt than what's here; and less volatile (it stays on screen).
I like it, but it's a novelty, and a wonder whether the novelty will wear thin.
I hate where the arrows on that site have been placed. It seems out of alignment, and blocks view of avatars while scrolling.
It would be much better placed in the empty gray space, at least on larger screens.
Agreed, and there are far broader problems with Google's approach to forums, but I'd like to focus on the arrows device.
Google's thing is more functional when pointed at by the end user (first screenshot below), less garish than the MacRumors red, and its elements fold away neatly (second screenshot):
A related question, which I didn't find time to post yesterday:
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I'm currently using hardware that doesn't support inertial or variable-speed scrolling, and, wow, the red arrows helps.
I find the Aqua-style scrollbars on my older Macs (which also don't support inertial scrolling) useful and equally as aesthetically pleasing while browsing the forums, and the red arrows still only get in the way. But I'm glad they are useful to someone.
Can't there just be a setting in the forum under Settings that we uncheck to get rid of the red up/down arrows?
I can't get it to work with Greasemonkey and Firefox 46.0.1 (on PC-BSD). Exactly how should the script look, in its entirety?
(Back to basics. Sorry. All my customised scripts were unexpectedly lost, long ago, whilst using Safari to manage extensions.)
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C DM, you might be using an ad blocker (or a different one), it takes care of the annoying arrows.
That is a CSS script. Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey is for JavaScript, Stylish is for CSS.
Hmm, for me the GUI to Stylish appears incomplete –
– compared with the following screenshot (from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/971327):
Any suggestions?
– compared with the following screenshot (from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/971327):
Any suggestions?
Must be a new UI introduced in a Stylish update, I get the same here (except with a dark theme to go with Firefox Developer Edition). Simply pasting in the code seems to work for me:Hmm, for me the GUI to Stylish appears incomplete –
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– compared with the following screenshot (from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/971327):
Any suggestions?
I can't seem to figure out how to make site-specific styles in this version though (the Safari version I have provides an easily-accessible option to do this). The style above applies to all sites, not just forums.macrumors.com.
OK, after reading [ubuntu] alternative to Stylish and other reports of Stylish not working, I tried User Style Manager in lieu of Stylish. Again it appeared as if essential parts of the GUI were missing, so I guessed that some add-ons were in conflict.
ProfileSwitcher did not work as expected so I found another way to present the Profile Manager at startup. Sure enough, when I added Stylish alone, that add-on appeared better.
To troubleshoot, I tried Addon Manager with Profiling but that, too, did not work as expected.
I resorted to manual troubleshooting. The offending item – preventing use of Stylish – seems to be:
ProfileSwitcher did not work as expected so I found another way to present the Profile Manager at startup. Sure enough, when I added Stylish alone, that add-on appeared better.
To troubleshoot, I tried Addon Manager with Profiling but that, too, did not work as expected.
I resorted to manual troubleshooting. The offending item – preventing use of Stylish – seems to be:
- Clean YouTube™, also known as AdBlock for YouTube™
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