How can I customize Firefox to eliminate the function where the browser grays out the window in order to highlight a question box?
Ever since I upgraded from Firefox 3 (which I waited so long to do because I couldn't customize the newer Firefox the way I wanted to) to Firefox 14.0.1, I have had a problem.
I guess that one of the websites I visit is trying to imitate Windows, where the background becomes grayed out whenever it wants you to concentrate on a response box. So when I am on a third-party email site (Inbox.com), and delete a message, when the message box pops up to ask me if I really want to delete the message, the background becomes grayed out while the response box is displayed. This never happened on that site when I used Firefox 3, and I would like to prevent this from happening.
I have tried to manage this with an add-on (Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus), but it won't allow me to select the grayed out part of the screen the way it does with unsolicited "pop-ups".
Is there a Firefox setting or an add-on I can use to keep the background from becoming "grayed out"?
Thank you
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You can set the prompts.tab_modal.enabled pref to false on the about:config page to revert to the old style alert and prompt pop-ups, but this will block Firefox as long as this pop-up is open. The modal pop-ups are tab specific and do not block the user interface.
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This is a change to how scripts display 3 kinds of "modal" message boxes. Modal meaning that access to the rest of the page in that tab is blocked. the gray background is a kind of reminder that access is blocked until you have responded to the dialog.
Is the problem that you need to see part of the screen in order to respond to the prompt? There might be a way to do that with a style rule; I haven't researched it.
Of course, I must also mention that Firefox is up to version 20 now and version 14 is subject to numerous publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities. Is there something stopping you from updating? If so, please explain and we can advise on workarounds.
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Thanks for responding.
It isn't that there is anything grayed out that I need to see, just that it would be a preference of mine to not have the graying occur. It didn't happen in build 3.
It's just that something about the graying strikes me as "bossy", and since it's my computer (and I should be able to control it as I please), it irritates me.
To answer your other post, I don't want to upgrade to build 20. Actually, I would rather return to 3, just to keep things like this from happening.
In version 3, I also had more control over the autocomplete function on some websites. I'm not talking about the autocomplete that fills in forms or passwords, but the autocomplete that occurs when you type in a search box on a website. I had eliminated almost all occurances of autocomplete by using various different things, until I got Firefox 14. Now I have to put up with it on a few sites, including one that I use often.
Every time I get a newer version of Firefox, I have to accept more and more things that I don't want to have in my browser.
Chosen Solution
You can set the prompts.tab_modal.enabled pref to false on the about:config page to revert to the old style alert and prompt pop-ups, but this will block Firefox as long as this pop-up is open. The modal pop-ups are tab specific and do not block the user interface.
Thanks a lot. That seems to work well.