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I multitask. I have my AIM on the right side of my monitor screen,
as small as the application will allow me to make it (which is to say,
around 2 inches wide, and 5 inches tall).
I have my game window running either in front of or behind the
browser, depending on which I'm doing at the moment. The browser
I have sized such that I can see my game window scrolling a full
1.5 inches at the bottom of my monitor screen. I also have it sized
so that I can see the full AIM screen, plus around 1/2 inch on the
left, where my "often-used desktop items" are located. In this way,
I don't have to minimize anything to access a desktop icon that I
use often. Around half of each one is poking out from behind the
browser.
My monitor screen is only 16 inches from left to right. My browser
screen, therefore, is only 13 inches wide (16 - 2 - .5 - another .5
for the scrollbars and browser margin. Another 1/2 inch is taken by
the forum margin, which is 1/4 inch on each side. That leaves me
with 12.5 inches upon which to read.
The new column takes up a good 3 inches. That's almost 1/4 of the
entire webpage, occupied by something I have zero interest in
seeing, that is mostly just a distraction. I hate it on Facebook too,
but they have the decency to limit it to only 1.5 inches.
What's even more distracting, is when the topics on the right run
out, and all there is on the right is a lot of white space taking up
three full inches of your browser. It kind of makes you wonder,"why
did they waste my browser load-up on this white space? What
nefarious intention must they have, to thrust such vast
nothingness upon its membership?"
I have no answer for it, and so I offer you my own three inches of
nothingness. If it's good enough for the fine folks running City-Data,
it's good enough for me. I added another couple inches just to make
it extra special.
Feel free to fill in the space with stick figures and clever cartoons!
It seems that everytime I visit the forums that I have to turn this "new" () feature off then I get the full page of text.
How can a person turn this less than welcome new feature off and be done with it for good?????
Oh yes, BTW, this new feature is very redundant since there already is "Live Forum Preview" at the bottom of the page to use that serves the same function???
I clicked the off icon this morning and it seems to be permanently gone even tho I have logged off and back on..Same as with the FaceBook widget, I clicked off once and it never came back.
I am using Firefox but don't know if that has anything to do with it.
I multitask. I have my AIM on the right side of my monitor screen,
as small as the application will allow me to make it (which is to say,
around 2 inches wide, and 5 inches tall).
I have my game window running either in front of or behind the
browser, depending on which I'm doing at the moment. The browser
I have sized such that I can see my game window scrolling a full
1.5 inches at the bottom of my monitor screen. I also have it sized
so that I can see the full AIM screen, plus around 1/2 inch on the
left, where my "often-used desktop items" are located. In this way,
I don't have to minimize anything to access a desktop icon that I
use often. Around half of each one is poking out from behind the
browser.
My monitor screen is only 16 inches from left to right. My browser
screen, therefore, is only 13 inches wide (16 - 2 - .5 - another .5
for the scrollbars and browser margin. Another 1/2 inch is taken by
the forum margin, which is 1/4 inch on each side. That leaves me
with 12.5 inches upon which to read.
You bring up a good point. I multitask too. (And my laptop screen is even smaller right to left. It's like 10" total.) Often when I'm replying to a thread, trying to help someone, I open other windows to research and provide links. I need to make my screens smaller so I can see all screens at once. With that wide margin on the right, I'd only see a few words per line when my window is smaller. There is no way I'll scroll down and read paragraphs just a few words at a time. If it becomes too difficult, I won't have time to provide the same quality information.
If you cleared your cookies though MISS BLUE IT WOULD BE BACK,It sets it in your cookie that you have closed them..... (They are scripts that control those)
Since it can be turned off I don't have much of an issue with it, but still think the placement was terrible. Especially when you're on a smart phone that has a tiny screen.
I use Mozilla Firefox, have a reasonable size screen, and 1280x1024 resolution. I've clicked on multiple suggestions on that new feature and just open them in a new tab so I can continue with my current thread and read the others later. Since I usually just click Subscribed Forums, this takes me to threads I might not usually see. I'd been trying New Posts lately for a change of pace but that has too much to keep up with - and the Active threads list at the bottom of some pages moves too fast to click sometimes. So, this new feature is a happy medium, IMO. So far, the compressed column isn't so bad and, actually, I'll like it better if it means I won't have to scroll to read posts anymore.
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I didn't think to clear my cookies today.
