Re: browser oddities

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Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> writes:

> David Zelinsky wrote:
> > I'm having a couple of different problems with my web browser.
> > I haven't been able to find any mention of solutions, so any help
> > or pointers would be welcome.
> > 1.  Missing "hide left bar" arrow in Google maps.
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > In google maps, there's supposed to be a little blue arrow on the left
> > edge of the map, between the map pane and the area to left with search
> > results.  Clicking on the arrow is supposed to expand the map to fill
> > the whole window.
> 
> Change the user-agent string from Iceweasel to Firefox (You can find
> it in about:config, search for useragent.

Wow, that works!  I'm very happy to have wide maps again!


> > 2.  Flash image obscuring text.
> > -------------------------------
> > I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some
> > flash image obscures text.  In once case, there was a navigation bar
> > overlapping the pages's text, which couldn't be made to go away.  In
> > another case, a popup menu popped up _behind_ a flash image, making
> > it impossible to see or click on the menu entries.
> 
> Yes, that is annoying. But flash *is* annoying anyway, so I just
> adblock it away!

I tried it, and it does fix these problems, which is useful.  But it
also breaks things, like youtube.  What I really want is to make flash
in firefox behave the same as in other browsers.


Thanks for your help!

-- 
David