Cipher:
"hey michael elliott, i've tested gmail without my script on narrow window widths, & it has the same behavior whether my script is enabled or not. gmail displays a scroll bar when the width becomes too small. "
Right, but my point was that without the script, the emails are forced into a narrow column in the middle by the righthand sidebar, and it doesn't have any horizontal scrollbar at my width. Only when I use the script does it remove the sidebar and allow Gmail to expand long-text-line emails (or those with frame formatting, like Yahoo mailing lists) to go beyond the visible window, and not wrap to the existing window.
I was just hoping there was something in the script that could be used to force Gmail to never allow lines to extend beyond the right edge of the window, forcing them to wrap as they do when the righthand sidebar is there. As it is, I'd rather live with the righthand sidebar than have to horizontally scroll for every line in those long-line/framed emails. :-)
Normally I use Thunderbird for local email reading, because there are many things I do not like about Gmail's webmail interface that they aren't going to change, but I had a harddisk crash I'm recovering data from still, and until I do I am using the webmail version, meaning I have to workaround those things I don't like, and had hoped this script could let me do that. :-)
"I also don't have the weird firefox behavior you described. I assume that you have a buggy extension or theme interfering & causing all this. My suggestion is: use a new firefox"
As noted in my original question/comment, I already have the newest firefox, as there isn't anything newer than 2.0.0.11 (except for a security update that just happened last night that I verified doesn't affect the problem, upping it to 2.0.0.12).
It could well be an extension/addon (I don't use themes, just whatever the built-in default is, and I don't use skins/themes in WinXP either--it's set to the old gray flat look for everything). I've not yet verified if it happens with them all off or not, I'll do that eventually (it doesn't actually cause me a problem since my normal width is greater than that at which the problem occurs).
<p>Cipher:
<br />"hey michael elliott, i've tested gmail without my script on narrow window widths, & it has the same behavior whether my script is enabled or not. gmail displays a scroll bar when the width becomes too small. "</p>
<p>Right, but my point was that without the script, the emails are forced into a narrow column in the middle by the righthand sidebar, and it doesn't have any horizontal scrollbar at my width. Only when I use the script does it remove the sidebar and allow Gmail to expand long-text-line emails (or those with frame formatting, like Yahoo mailing lists) to go beyond the visible window, and not wrap to the existing window. </p>
<p>I was just hoping there was something in the script that could be used to force Gmail to never allow lines to extend beyond the right edge of the window, forcing them to wrap as they do when the righthand sidebar is there. As it is, I'd rather live with the righthand sidebar than have to horizontally scroll for every line in those long-line/framed emails. :-) </p>
<p>Normally I use Thunderbird for local email reading, because there are many things I do not like about Gmail's webmail interface that they aren't going to change, but I had a harddisk crash I'm recovering data from still, and until I do I am using the webmail version, meaning I have to workaround those things I don't like, and had hoped this script could let me do that. :-)</p>
<p>"I also don't have the weird firefox behavior you described. I assume that you have a buggy extension or theme interfering & causing all this. My suggestion is: use a new firefox"</p>
<p>As noted in my original question/comment, I already have the newest firefox, as there isn't anything newer than 2.0.0.11 (except for a security update that just happened last night that I verified doesn't affect the problem, upping it to 2.0.0.12). </p>
<p>It could well be an extension/addon (I don't use themes, just whatever the built-in default is, and I don't use skins/themes in WinXP either--it's set to the old gray flat look for everything). I've not yet verified if it happens with them all off or not, I'll do that eventually (it doesn't actually cause me a problem since my normal width is greater than that at which the problem occurs).</p>
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