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March 19, 2009 11:17 AM   Subscribe

Has MSN Money recently installed an annoying background image? How can I get rid of it?

The fading, striped, blue background makes reading numerical charts extremely difficult. The figures used to be legible red and black on a white background. This just happened today, and I haven't changed any settings that I am aware of. Aside from View: Page Style: No Page Style, or Select All, how can I get legibility out of these pages?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium to Technology (10 answers total)
 
I've never used the site before but when navigating to it just now (in both Firefox 3 and IE 7) my eyeballs were attacked with an almost completely unreadable mish mash of horribly screwed up backgrounds. So apparently it isn't just you or your preferences. Since it just happened today my guess is somebody at Microsoft is sweating pushing a change out to fix this as we speak.
posted by steveminutillo at 11:37 AM on March 19, 2009


Response by poster: Oscar Wilde is rolling in his grave.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:41 AM on March 19, 2009


Assuming you're using Firefox with Adblock Plus:

1- Right-click on the ABP icon and select "Open bloackable items".
2- Enter "decoration/02" in the search bar.
3- Shift-click to select all of the items.
4- Right-click them and select Block this item.
5- Select the "Custom" option and enter "http://blstc.msn.com/br/gbl/css/6/decoration/02/*" in the box (sans quote marks, of course).
6- Click Add Filter.
7- Refresh the page.
posted by aheckler at 11:47 AM on March 19, 2009


If you're using FireFox you can use the AdBlock Plus extension to block the background images; a filter on http://blstc.msn.com/br/gbl/css/6/decoration/02/* takes out all the stripey backgrounds.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:47 AM on March 19, 2009


Bah, knew I should have previewed.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:49 AM on March 19, 2009


bloackable blockable
posted by aheckler at 11:50 AM on March 19, 2009


That's clearly a broken page. Until it gets fixed, just kill styles in FF with the web developer toolbar.
posted by sageleaf at 11:51 AM on March 19, 2009


Response by poster: Right-O. Thanks, guys.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:05 PM on March 19, 2009


Response by poster: (Guys/Broads)
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:06 PM on March 19, 2009


Looks fine now (FF3).
posted by dhartung at 1:38 AM on March 20, 2009


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