Tiny White Boxes April 4, 2009 12:19 AM   Subscribe

Why do I have a persistent little white box the same size as profile images, right next to the actual profile images? And why does this same box show up when I try to upload a new profile image?

Maybe other people are having this problem: I'm using FireFox 3.08 on Windows, and, well, the previous says it all. Screenshot here.
posted by scrump to Bugs at 12:19 AM (12 comments total)

Well, I'm sure the screenshot is there, but it would probably help if you tell us where on the domain it is.
posted by koeselitz at 12:33 AM on April 4, 2009 [1 favorite]


Are you using Greasemonkey? If so, have you turned it off?

When I turn on the See Profile Pics Next to Comments script scrump, yours shows up as a white box. But I see nothing on your profile page. Have you tried uploading a different image?
posted by carsonb at 12:47 AM on April 4, 2009


Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
posted by shmegegge at 6:31 AM on April 4, 2009 [1 favorite]


That's greasemonkey, not metafilter. People with no profile image have a white box, at least for me on Firefox3.0.8. You have no profile image on your page. I don't think it's always been like that, but I mostly have kept the script turned off since everyone started having guns.

It's grumblebee's script, you might memail him.
posted by donnagirl at 8:34 AM on April 4, 2009


Fuckin' greasemonkey!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:43 AM on April 4, 2009


Ooh. Thanks for the help, everyone. I'll memail grumblebee.
posted by scrump at 11:57 AM on April 4, 2009


And, buggrit, that tinypic URL was correct when I used it. Bastards. You all solved the problem for me anyway without the screenshot, but rassin' frassin'.
posted by scrump at 11:58 AM on April 4, 2009


You're a vampire?
posted by JimmyJames at 2:01 PM on April 4, 2009


I am a bit too busy right now to work on the script. I will do so eventually. But if anyone wants to tinker with it in the meantime, be my guest.

It also has some sort of conflict with light-boxed videos.
posted by grumblebee at 2:27 PM on April 4, 2009


Note: what with the popularity of Greasmonkey scripts, it would be awesome if Matt and pb would tag everything in the HTML. I had to so some text parsing to get access to what I needed. The whole thing would be way easier if there was just a class="profilePic" or something. This would also help with custom CSS pages.
posted by grumblebee at 2:29 PM on April 4, 2009


The profile pic script also conflicts with MeFi Navigator (in that it completely stops it from working), but I think you already know that. It's a real shame, because I want them both, but can't have it.
posted by dg at 1:47 PM on April 5, 2009


It's tough to make multiple Greasemonkey scripts play nice with each other when they're all altering the same site. One script might remove something that the other script needs to be there.

If the Web was built right, this would all be easy. EVERYTHING would be tagged and it would be trivial for people to go into their Browsers and say, "whenever x appears, put a blue line under it" or "whenever Y appears, put a profile pic in front of it.

This is, of course, all possible now with XML/RSS, etc., but most sites aren't really set up correctly to let users display information however they want.
posted by grumblebee at 9:03 PM on April 6, 2009


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