CSS hell
ETA: Leaving this post up so that I can look back on it next time I have a computer meltdown, but both issues seem to have been vanquished. Posting about it was far from pointless, though -- without your collective help I'd be cursing and trying to teach myself CSS right now, and Firefox would still be doing both maddening things.
So like an idiot, I upgraded my Firefox installation.
Okay, perhaps not totally like an idiot. There were security issues with the older version, and the new one is running faster and better. Only there's this one not as trivial as you'd think problem with it. Which is -- let me pause here to take a deep breath and try not to shout -- the FLOATING INFORMATION BOXES POPPING UP with link information whenever my cursor comes anywhere near a link. Which, this being the Internet, is EVERYWHERE.
The boxes are not tiny, and they cover up actual text when they appear, and the information they contain is not always anything I care about. It's like that horrible preview-of-the-link thing that LJ tried to force on us a while back, but gave us a way to opt out of. And I haven't been able to figure out any way to turn it off.
I am not the only person to have this problem -- the internet is a big place, one never is -- and when I went looking, I found this discussion, where a more competent sufferer gives a recipe for making it stop. The only thing is, the recipe presumes one is competent with CSS, at least enough to be able to follow the instructions about how to edit a Chrome file so that the browser knows to execute the drafted commands.
Alas, I am not so competent as that. I could find the folders I was supposed to be looking for easily enough, and I could insert the new language into a file and edit it in a text editor, and put the new file where all the documentation says to put it. But I'm doing something wrong, probably in the details of that replacement text file, because it doesn't work. If I weren't buried under my to-do list I would consider this God's way of telling me to learn CSS, but I can't, I don't even dare start. I may have to consider it instead to be God's way of telling me to stay off the internet until I have time to learn some basic skills.
Before I take any such radical lesson from it, though, I figured I'd ask you more competent folks whether any of you had encountered this, or knew what to do about it, or could see with one single glance what the formula that I'm supposed to be able to plug into Chrome actually is, as opposed to what a person armed with no knowledge, but the ability to cut and paste, might think it was.
-- And while I'm hissing and snarling about browser and/or site behaviors, does anyone know why Dreamwidth is suddenly redirecting me to my homepage every time I log in, rather than letting me stay, say, on my reading page? I hated it when LJ started doing that, and I hate it now in Dreamwidth. It's possible that this is my own fault, and one of my privacy settings is causing it; but come on, I'm allowing Dreamwidth's cookies and scripting. I'm only blocking google-analytics' scripting, and I've always done that, and it's never made this happen before. Please, can I turn the redirect-to-homepage off? Please??
So like an idiot, I upgraded my Firefox installation.
Okay, perhaps not totally like an idiot. There were security issues with the older version, and the new one is running faster and better. Only there's this one not as trivial as you'd think problem with it. Which is -- let me pause here to take a deep breath and try not to shout -- the FLOATING INFORMATION BOXES POPPING UP with link information whenever my cursor comes anywhere near a link. Which, this being the Internet, is EVERYWHERE.
The boxes are not tiny, and they cover up actual text when they appear, and the information they contain is not always anything I care about. It's like that horrible preview-of-the-link thing that LJ tried to force on us a while back, but gave us a way to opt out of. And I haven't been able to figure out any way to turn it off.
I am not the only person to have this problem -- the internet is a big place, one never is -- and when I went looking, I found this discussion, where a more competent sufferer gives a recipe for making it stop. The only thing is, the recipe presumes one is competent with CSS, at least enough to be able to follow the instructions about how to edit a Chrome file so that the browser knows to execute the drafted commands.
Alas, I am not so competent as that. I could find the folders I was supposed to be looking for easily enough, and I could insert the new language into a file and edit it in a text editor, and put the new file where all the documentation says to put it. But I'm doing something wrong, probably in the details of that replacement text file, because it doesn't work. If I weren't buried under my to-do list I would consider this God's way of telling me to learn CSS, but I can't, I don't even dare start. I may have to consider it instead to be God's way of telling me to stay off the internet until I have time to learn some basic skills.
Before I take any such radical lesson from it, though, I figured I'd ask you more competent folks whether any of you had encountered this, or knew what to do about it, or could see with one single glance what the formula that I'm supposed to be able to plug into Chrome actually is, as opposed to what a person armed with no knowledge, but the ability to cut and paste, might think it was.
-- And while I'm hissing and snarling about browser and/or site behaviors, does anyone know why Dreamwidth is suddenly redirecting me to my homepage every time I log in, rather than letting me stay, say, on my reading page? I hated it when LJ started doing that, and I hate it now in Dreamwidth. It's possible that this is my own fault, and one of my privacy settings is causing it; but come on, I'm allowing Dreamwidth's cookies and scripting. I'm only blocking google-analytics' scripting, and I've always done that, and it's never made this happen before. Please, can I turn the redirect-to-homepage off? Please??