On 8/29/2010 3:54 PM PT, David E. Ross typed:
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*
I have the PrefBar extension installed for SeaMonkey. I use the
JavaScript checkbox to disable JavaScript whenever I view the Huffington
Post, not because of what happens to navigation arrows but because of
the annoying same-window popups. I also disable JavaScript for several
other news Web sites for the same reason. The only problem is
remembering to enable JavaScript before I visit a page where it is
really needed.
Strange, I don't get pop-ups there but then I do use AdBlock Plus. Is
there a way to white and black lists web sites for JS? But then other
features on those web sites would break. Ugh!
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