Hi Matey, just so I don't completely hijack Paul's question. I'm back on Firefox 16.0.2. There's probably an update but I disabled that as it was mithering constantly.
There was a thread where Vince and yourself tried to help me when i wasn't seeing Avatars on Firefox but I'm still getting the green Home Resources Forum Blogs Shop............... etc line hovering over posts. It's nearly obscuring the Subject line at the minute. Weird eh.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks, Tim
EDIT: updated to v.18.0 - must be some setting causing the hovering menu.
-- Edited by Don Tax on Monday 14th of January 2013 06:37:40 PM
is it happening with other sites Tim or just peculiar to this one?
I did have a problem with the site a few months back myself in that the green bar would not stay pinned where it was suppose to be. Site admin did something magical and I thought that it had been fixed, apparently not in all cases though.
are your java pluggin and flash player up to date and enabled?
here's my setup, see if your is similar (no idea why iTunes is there and don't know what silverlight is? The important one's will be Abode Shockwave and Java... And yes, I know that I'm still on office 2007 but I'm a firm advocate of the idea that iff it aint broke don't fix it)
Hope that fixes it but if not fingers crossed even as you read this Vince will be rushing to his closest phone box the don his super techie cape.
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I'm using v18 of Firefox, and I'm not seeing the same problem.
TBH, I wouldn't have thought it was caused by any of the plug-ins because (without actually looking at the page source) it's probably using either CSS or tables to position that menu bar. Actually, why not have a peek? Okay, a quick glance shows it's generated by Javascript, which is an entirely different thing to Java, and not actually a plug-in, so fiddling with the plug-in settings won't help a jot.
It appears to work by generating an array for each item in the menu, allowing for submenus, with the first part of each array containing the menu item, the link, and some other information, including the number of submenu items (which are then defined on the subsequent lines). So one possible explanation is that the Javascript handling in your version of Firefox is messed up, but (while I sometimes miss an upgrade) I'm sure I've used v16 and not seen the same problem.
There aren't a lot of settings available for controlling Javascript - but what little there is can be found on Tools => Options => Content. Mine is set with "Enable Javascript" ticked (obviously) and clicking on "Advanced" all three options in there are unticked - but none of them are the sort of thing that would affect the way that page menu is positioned. (The third one, "Disable or replace context menus", is to do with allowing pages to use Javascript to replace the menu you get when right clicking on a page.)
So... I'm baffled as to the cause of the problem. :(
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