0
When I look at a story on Slashdot, I see a side-bar that sits constantly in the upper-left corner. Every time I open a story, I have to click on the "slash" sign in its upper-right corner.
How can I disable it, so it will always have css position absolute, relative or static? Is there an option for it? Because I find it is slowing my browser down when I am scrolling the page.
I am a registered Slashdot user, logged in.
Tom
Posted 2010-06-03T17:57:45.480
Reputation: 978
-2
If you are willing to use the old Slashdot discussion style, you can disable dynamic discussions to remove this. Follow these steps to disable dynamic discussions:
Trey Hunner
Posted 2010-06-03T17:57:45.480
Reputation: 1 825
1This does solve the problem, but it disables the whole JavaScript. I only want that box to be gone when I scroll down. – Tom – 2010-06-03T20:47:33.900
@Tom: That is correct. Personally I prefer the old Slashdot comment style but I am used to it because that's how Slashdot has always been in my mind (due to nostalgia). I know of no other way to disable the floating box that follows you down the page via Slashdot's preferences. If you want a solution that specifically solves this problem you will probably have to use a custom browser extension (you'll need to tell us your browser for this). – Trey Hunner – 2010-06-04T01:26:50.957
1
Install this addon (if you haven't already) and this user script. This appears to disable position: fixed everywhere; if for some bizzare reason that is a problem for you, edit the @include line to taste. You may need to add ,null to the window.getComputedStyle call or ,false to the window.addEventListener call (or other adjustments); if so, you probably won't get get any notification that you need to do so, just the script silently failing.
David X
Posted 2010-06-03T17:57:45.480
Reputation: 464
I'm sure I'm being dumb, but I can't recreate - could you post a link? – Andy – 2010-06-03T18:24:17.087
That is a Screenshot taken from this URL: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/02/2317241/EU-To-Monitor-All-Internet-Searches The title at the top is the title of my browser's tab. The box below it is always fixed on the page and it is quite annoying.
– Tom – 2010-06-03T20:06:20.437can you write greasemonkey scripts? – Andy – 2010-06-04T12:21:48.150
@Andy I had hoped to find a configuration setting. – Tom – 2010-06-05T18:17:55.633
Understood, don't know if it's possible, not sure how it would be presented if it was. Good luck! – Andy – 2010-06-05T19:39:36.820
Cross-referencing similar questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26664285/how-do-i-disable-positionfixed-in-web-pages https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13696100/greasemonkey-script-to-make-fixed-positioned-elements-static
– aplaice – 2017-03-18T19:43:34.193