Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus
On 25 Apr 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> >First: I don't have to use Firefox. If there is another browser
> >that solves my problem, please suggest it. I'm willing to try
> >something new.
> >
> >My problem: When I go to some web sites (more recently it seems)
> >and click on a hot-link, it brings up a menu that I am supposed
> >to select a sub-category from. The trouble is that the menu has
> >a transparent background. The existing web page shows through,
> >and I can't make out the text of the sub-categories. How can I
> >force pop-up menus to have opaque backgrounds? Use a different
> >browser is an OK answer, if you also suggest a particular one.
>
> It is very annoying, but what I do when I encounter this (and have some
> spare time): I email a friendly complaint. I include a link to
> http://validator.w3.org/
> with their webpage included and tell them that their page isn't valid
> html-code and they should try to fix it (I've never seen one of those
> that was valid html).
>
> Usually those pages also require java script, so you could optionally
> (friendly) tell them that how should you trust their java code if there
> are so many errors in their html.
>
> Annoying web pages won't get better unless companies/maintainers get an
> incentive to improve.
Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you
just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use this a lot for
those ridiculous site where you have pale blue text on a white
background, etc.
Anthony
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