wrestling for control

of my cursor...

[chewy]

So I use a well known home page from msn for my daily fix of internet news.

As I've used this for years, I love it and get depressed when they change it or it breaks for a while.

Some time ago, they STOLE control of my cursor.

Always, it gets placed in their evil search box.

When I'm scrolling down the page, I have to first move the cursor somewhere on the page and then use page up or page down to continue viewing the MSN home page.

When I go back to the home page from whatever I was reading (NYT / Google News / Whatever) I have to AGAIN regain control of the cursor to then use page down again.

This just feels evil.

Is there a Firefox extension that allows me to regain control of my cursor?

Yeah - it is just one little mouse click - but it is SO ANNOYING that I've just become fed up and have to vent.

Ever gratefoo.

-C

[rocknbil]

This simple bit of code

window.onload=function() {
docment.getElementById('srch').focus();
};

Is the focus of one of your frustrations (pun intended, sorry.) And as mentioned here [webmasterworld.com] is #1 on my list, they use it in bank interfaces and everything else. Do not dictate my actions for me!

You can disable Javascript, that's about all. Personally, I'd find a new "home" page. For ultimate control, I set my home page to "blank." :-)

[chewy]

years ago i had "home" set to blank and it caused gales of laughter.

my own home page is something different - probably Google (the stripped down version for fast loading).

Thanks - I never quite know what to do with this kind of advice but I'll give it a few tries.

Thank foo!

[Demaestro]

You can disable select JS scripts in FF.

For example you can make it so websites can't take control of your 'right click' action. I don't think that they have a preset for putting focus to a texbox though.

However, I think that the addon NoScript [noscript.net...] allows you to do this. It tries to learn from your habits to decide what scripts to allow.

I haven't really played with it but it may do what you are wanting.

[PCInk]

Google Chrome also allows you to disable or enable javascript for certain websites, so you could disable JS for just that particular site. Probably similar function in something like NoScript for FF but I've never used that plug in.

[LifeinAsia]

years ago i had "home" set to blank and it caused gales of laughter.

I don't understand why- I've done this for years. For one, I don't want to wait for that page to load every time I open the browser. Plus, most likely it's NOT the site I want to go to at that particular time.

[chewy]

it caused gales of laughter - well because the friend realized he needed to show me a few things...

later I learned from him to load a local html "home" page that because it was local it loaded lightning fast.

[LifeinAsia]

it loaded lightning fast.

But not as fast as loading nuthin'. :)