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PeterD


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As an afterthought, is the highlighting just odd words in the text in web pages? Also if it is that, does hovering the cursor over them produce a small pop-up? If so this is Text-Enhance It was put there when you installed something after you installed Firefox.

You might have noticed that when you install some programmes there are also other things offered as you install it. If you do not remove the tick from the tick-box next to the offer you get all sorts of things like tool-bars and other so called help features. Always look for these things and remove the tick from them. I got caught with Text-Enhance by not reading everything when I was in a hurry. There are plenty of suggestions of how to get rid of it Like these. Of those I tries, none of them worked for me. I ended up restoring my computer to an earlier date and re-installing everything I wanted that I had added after that restore date (reading things so I would not get hit again.)



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I think we talked about this once before ,  but I cant find where,

I keep getting words highlighted on my browser, firefox (latest version)

and dont know how to get rid of it, any ideas?

 

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Hi Milo, which text? The text in your Firefox programme, the web sites you are looking at or the text you are typing?

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I don't use Firefox, but with I.E under the Files Tab there is a 'Compatible View Setting' heading that I've used many time to fix layout problems with websites.
Maybe Firefox has a similar function somewhere in the Menu.
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I think Peter hit the nail on the head...
I had a look at some of my add on's hope I have fixed it.. I hope

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So how do you get rid of the little white ? in black diamonds that I see throughout this thread?

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hmm I don't see those??

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ozjohn wrote:

I don't use Firefox, but with I.E under the Files Tab there is a 'Compatible View Setting' heading that I've used many time to fix layout problems with websites.
Maybe Firefox has a similar function somewhere in the Menu.

 Not directly John, You need to install the IE Tab. This puts a little Firefox icon in the bottom RH corner. If a web page is not rendering correctly you click on that icon. The icon immediately changes to the IE icon and the page is reloaded using the IE rendering engine (ie Firefox uses what ever version of IE you have installed.)



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Depending on the site you're on, the highlighted text maybe paid advertising installed by the website owner. If that's the case you won't be able to get rid of it because it's hardcoded into the web page irrespective of which browser you use.

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neilnruth wrote:

So how do you get rid of the little white ? in black diamonds that I see throughout this thread?

These are unicode which your browser doesn't understand, it's common and nothing to be concerned with. Usual reason for this are badly coded web-pages, or web-pages using character sets other then UTF-8 and Western Charsets. Firefox does have some issues with this, I've been using Google Chrome now for sometime and never experienced any such issues.

As for the highlighted text mentioned elsewhere, this can be deliberate by the website maker, using such tags as span to have a background colour over a specific area of text, and re the popups when hovering over a text or link, this is (without actually seeing what is originally been referred to) an ALT tag which is used most commonly on images, for example:

<img src="happycamper.jpg" alt="Me at the lake!"> The ALT can also be in front of the img in some cases.

You can do the same with text using the Acronym tag:

I am a member of the Grey Nomads <acronym title="Grey Nomads"><a href="http://www.thegreynomads.com.au" target="new window">Grey Nomads</a>.</acronym>

You can also do a lot of other fancy things with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). 



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