Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks.
I'd like to try this but so far as I know I've never succeeded at installing
a mozilla add-on. I've failed again on this one. Where can I find instructions
that don't assume that it 'just works'?
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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