Are there any browsers, or add-ons for them, that stop the bars many sites put on top?

[muriel_volestrangler]

I mean the pseudo-menu bars that many commercial sites put at either the top of the bottom of a screen. When you page down (or up) either with a key or using the scroll bar, my browser, Firefox, fails to take into account these ****ing annoying bars that sites put there again, and so some of the new page is hidden underneath it.

It's a bug. If it happened during testing, I'd tell the developers their browser doesn't work properly - even if it's the fault of the greedy website designers determined to keep their message in the browser window at all times.

I can't believe that all browser and add-on developers are happy with a broken browser, so surely there are fixes around. Can anyone point me at one?

I know some sites have a button somewhere on the bar that allow you to get rid of it, but (a) it's a pain in the arse, and (b) some don't. An example: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/fiscal_summit_generates_talk_o.html , which gives me an annoying yellow bar telling me the weather in New Orleans, and 2 lines of drop-down menus, and no way to hide them. And that hides about 5 lines of text.

[ManiacJoe]

1. What version of FF are you running?

What plugins are active?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. V 12.0; plugins such as Flash, Acrobat, Windows Media Player

I doubt it's being caused by any of them; the websites look just like the designers want them to - it's just that those designers don't care about the ability to page down or up accurately.

[bananas]

2. noscript nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I'll give it a go

though it looks as though I'd have to disable scripts for each badly-behaved site individually (or enable them for each site which has useful or necessary scripts).

Maybe I'm one of a small minority that uses 'page down', these days.

[douglas9]

5. WinPatrol

http://www.billp.com/


http://www.winpatrol.com/compare.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Seems like a sledgehammer to crack a nut

and I'm not certain it would actually do the job - what I get may not be a true 'browser tool bar' or BHO. NoScript, which I've installed as banana's suggestion, is doing the job (I just have to tell it to stop scripts on every site I don't like; tedious enough, though not as tedious as enabling scripts on the sites I'm OK with). So I think it's scripts that put the bars there.

[oldernwiser]

7. Poor page design

Yep - the root cause isn't a browser bug. In fact, your browser is doing something it was designed to do - accurately display a page as it's designed. The floating menu is either implemented in CSS or as a script embedded in the page code, and there's no way to turn it off except to turn off scripts or to disable the style sheet (in FF, View >> Page Style >> No Style).

Sometimes, you can e-mail the webmaster and voice your complaint. Doesn't sound like much, but with enough similar pressure, it can trigger a re-think.