The menu bar is wacked

December 21, 2005 5:25 PM

The menu bar is wacked in Firefox under 10.2. Screenshot inside.
posted by Mayor Curley to Bugs at 5:25 PM (26 comments total)

posted by Mayor Curley at 5:26 PM on December 21, 2005

It looks fine in Firefox 1.5 running in 10.4.3. Then again, it seems to do entirely with your firefox window width. When you narrow the Firefox window the search bar pushes against the links on the menu bar.
posted by birdherder at 5:37 PM on December 21, 2005

"You are logged in
as: thirteen / logout"

...

And birdherder seems to be right -- I can reproduce that layout issue by reducing my browser window width to sufficiently (scandalously?) small size. "My Profile" dips right under the search box and all is fucked.

Does, uh, your problem go away with a wider window?
posted by cortex at 5:42 PM on December 21, 2005

Same on Windows.
posted by Krrrlson at 5:44 PM on December 21, 2005

It happens for me in 10.4.3 as well, but goes away when I make resize the window.
posted by terrapin at 5:51 PM on December 21, 2005

Screenshot now borked. Awesome.
posted by cortex at 5:56 PM on December 21, 2005

"You are logged in as: thirteen / logout"

You magnificent bastard. I wouldn't have guessed. How many efts are here wearing sockpuppets?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:57 PM on December 21, 2005

I'm not following the thirteen thing. huh?
posted by shmegegge at 6:09 PM on December 21, 2005

I photoshopped "thirteen" in as a joke. I am not him. In fact, jessamyn knows him personally so I rushed over here to get this corrected as soon as I found that out. Otherwise I would have let you believe it for a while. To reiterate: I am not thirteen, I am just some asshole with a copy of photoshop.

shmegegge- I had originally photoshopped the shot to say that I was logged in as "thirteen" to make it look like we were the same guy. But that undermines both of our credibility and was bad to do. Even as a joke.

But I am an asshole who likes to read in a narrow column to keep my browsing on the QT. So I miss the scrollbars a lot.
posted by Mayor Curley at 6:11 PM on December 21, 2005

To reiterate: I am not thirteen

Odd joke. But I admit, your style of speech is very different from his, so it's easier to believe you're not than that you are. And the sockpuppet thing isn't (I misspoke), if someone relinquishes an old identity in favour of a new one, rather than using both at the same time, so no harm either way.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:22 PM on December 21, 2005

Confirmed by the way on Firefox/IE on XP as well -- go under 1024x768 browser realestate, and the menu bar gets goofed up. I assume quite a few users here are still at 800x600 (and maybe even a few old bastards squinting at their 640x480 and chasing kids out of their yards), so that's not optimal.

Further: it it happens at exactly 848 pixels width, when the search box hits the word 'Profile'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:28 PM on December 21, 2005

you should have photoshopped "dhoyt" in, for fuck's sake.
posted by matteo at 6:48 PM on December 21, 2005

The My Profile link is new. It's too much. I'd move Post a Thread to the top bar.
posted by cillit bang at 6:56 PM on December 21, 2005

If we must have the whole 'My' thing, how come it's not 'My Preferences'?
posted by event at 7:03 PM on December 21, 2005

does "country boys" have anything to do with gay barnyard porn?
posted by blag at 7:34 PM on December 21, 2005

I'm stavrosthewonderchicken.

There. I fucking said it.

I'm stavrosthewonderchicken's illiterate sock puppet!
posted by eyeballkid at 9:24 PM on December 21, 2005

I saw the thirteens, and thought someone was running some elaborate script that pasted our user names into the comments.

I am feeling very special now.
posted by thirteen at 9:50 PM on December 21, 2005

you are very special, mr thirteen.
posted by judith at 11:29 PM on December 21, 2005

'Tis a float issue. All of the menu stuff are enclosed in floated divs, and compressing the screen horizontally messes up the float. If you get it small enough the date overlaps the search box, even.

Actually the different color menu bars are themselves overlapped divs containing floated elements... it gets pretty weird looking when you compress the page.
posted by caution live frogs at 6:53 AM on December 22, 2005

my god, people... make your darn browser window wider and stop all the whining!

/goes to purchase cheese...lots and lots of cheese!
posted by HuronBob at 9:33 AM on December 22, 2005

ahhh..i'm betting on the Curley=thirteen thing myself...

heh.....how does that go?? "what a tangled web we weave...yada, yada, yada..." :)
posted by HuronBob at 9:37 AM on December 22, 2005

Looks like it collapses and adjusts fairly nicely to me. I would, however, say that it probably shouldn't collapse at all until the browser window is less than 760px wide but soon that'll be 950ish with greater resolutions in more often in use.
posted by juiceCake at 11:55 AM on December 22, 2005

Yes, I'm getting the same error.
posted by feelinglistless at 2:45 PM on December 22, 2005

I'm still trying to get my head around:

1. MC posts a tech-support type of MeTa thread, but, before posting, takes the time to photoshop someone else's handle over his own(?!)

2. When called on it, MC claims it was a joke, but then takes the time to change the screenshot to remove the photoshoppery, which sort of defeats the joke.

My guess is that MC is not thirteen, but the main point of the post was the joke, which MC expected to generate much teeth-gnashing about sock puppets, but then decided to abandon because jessamyn became involved.
posted by Mid at 3:49 PM on December 22, 2005

My guess is that MC is not thirteen, but the main point of the post was the joke, which MC expected to generate much teeth-gnashing about sock puppets, but then decided to abandon because jessamyn became involved.

Izzard: "Well you must be Sherlock Fuckin' Holmes, figure 'at out!"
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:37 PM on December 22, 2005

allrighty then
posted by Mid at 9:15 PM on December 22, 2005