Free Republic Update: Page Too Wide/Scroll Bars

It's getting weirder. On two systems, both running Linux OpenSuSE 10.3 with Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13, one displays with perfect layout, and one has the left sidebar bleeding over to the center with the horizontal scrollbar. Both are being displayed to the same screen (via a high end KVM switch.)

I'm wondering through the various browser Preferences and Add-Ons, trying to see if I can find a relevant difference.

You should probably put my posts above on your queue of "stuff to worry about some other day ;)".

41 posted on 04/29/2008 3:49:50 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)

Here’s another question, John...after reading a thread and hitting Back, the page refreshes and then you must scroll down to find your place. I don’t remember it being like that before...is it my computer or something I can do?

An easy way to refresh your page without losing your place is to click the post number at lower left. [This usually works great when using Firefox (don't know about IE) but if it doesn't, just click the number immediately above it.]

42 posted on 04/30/2008 7:48:07 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama says he loves America. So why does he associate with those whose hatred of it is so obvious?)

Not quite following you, Dave. I meant that when I’m in a thread and then go back to the Forum, the page refreshes on me and I have to scroll all the way down to find where I left off. Does that make sense? Maybe it always did that but I’m just noticing it now. I use IE, by the way.

43 posted on 04/30/2008 8:01:31 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)

O.k. I see what you're saying; I tried it and it does refresh to the start of the page. I have no answer for you as I was describing something else.

Might I suggest that you try Firefox. I have six tabs open and am following multiple threads. I just click on the tab and it opens to where I left off. It's a single window on the task bar; the tabs are on top with names of the thread. Also I find it really easy to post images and link url's, use italics, bold text and use other HTML features without trying to remember the HTML codes. Let me know if wish to switch as I can help you get acquainted with it.

44 posted on 04/30/2008 10:47:41 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama says he loves America. So why does he associate with those who so obviously hate it?)

All I do is download it onto my computer via mewzilla, right? Nothing scary will happen???

45 posted on 04/30/2008 10:57:31 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)

All I do is download it onto my computer via mewzilla, right? Nothing scary will happen???

Nothing scary will happen. Go to this link:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

After you download and open it up, go to "Help" and read the introduction for internet explorer users. After you play with it a bit, come back on here or by FReepmail and I'll suggest which extensions to add to customize it for using with FR.

46 posted on 04/30/2008 11:09:54 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama says he loves America. So why does he associate with those who so obviously hate it?)

47 posted on 04/30/2008 11:15:24 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)

One more thing, you know that FR uses < > to indicate HTML tags. Some other bulletin board forums use brackets [ ] for their tags. One of the suggested add-on extensions lets you switch back and forth depending which forum you are using. Really useful if you browse on a lot of differing forums.

Also, it has a built in spell checker (underlines a mis-spelled word in red as you type) and you can add a dictionary to search really obscure words. I’d be lost without FF. Even our IT people, when they need to check something out, will use Firefox on my work computer.

48 posted on 04/30/2008 11:33:25 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama says he loves America. So why does he associate with those who so obviously hate it?)

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