In <news:[email protected]>, Ant <[email protected]> wrote: > I am starting to noticed that more and more web sites are supporting > and using left and right arrow keys to go previous and next > pages/images. > > For an example: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/google-acquisitions-timeline_n_696063.html > > I click left arrow to a previous article and right arrow for the next > article. I see this in both Mozilla's Firefox v2.0.0.20 (probably the > same in v3.6.8) and SeaMonkey v2.0.6 web browsers. I could not > reproduce this is in old Internet Explorer v6 (IE6). > > Is there a way to disable this annoyance? I use keyboard a lot to > navigate online, including web sites.
As Ed says, it's javascript. Short of disabling javascript entirely on those pages, you'd have to find the script that's catching your keypresses and block it. There are other approaches to blocking bits of javascript, but I usually use AdBlock Plus for it. In the case of huffpost, this filter will work: |http://s.huffpost.com/assets/js.php?f=yui.js* -- »Q« /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mail X <http://www.asciiribbon.org/> / \ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
