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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
