posts from may, 2009
How to fix a recent Adblock bug in Facebook profiles
Thursday, May 21st, 2009, 9:17 pm PDT
When you’re looking at profiles on Facebook, is there a giant gap in the center (the left side of the right column)? If so, it’s probably due to their latest CSS update, which the Adblock Plus subscription list has not yet adjusted for. Odds are it will be fixed really soon, but until then, here’s a hack to fix it: ∞
- The hard way:
- Go to the chrome directory in your Firefox profile directory. If you’re not sure where that is, it’s probably easiest to find it by:
- Windows users, go to Windows Run (type the Windows key + r) and then enter:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
Mac users, open:~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/
Linux users, open:~/.mozilla/firefox/ - Then, open the directory that has “default” on the end of it. (Odds are there will only be one).
- Then, open the “chrome” directory.
- Windows users, go to Windows Run (type the Windows key + r) and then enter:
- Create a file called userContent.css
- In Notepad, edit that file to have just this in it: .profile .right_column_container .profile_sidebar_ads { height: 1px; }
- Save the file and restart Firefox
- Go to the chrome directory in your Firefox profile directory. If you’re not sure where that is, it’s probably easiest to find it by:
- The easy way:
- Save this userContent.css fix file to the directory found in step 1 of the hard way above. If you already have a userContent.css file there, you’ll need to append the contents of it.
You’re probably familiar with the idea of somebody’s negative thoughts affecting their health. This week, New Scientist is covering the ‘nocebo’ effect (2,249 words), which sometimes gets so bad as to kill a person. Seriously, that’s pretty extreme — thinking that you’re going to die can get so bad as to actually kill you. In fact, it’s hypothesized that it’s responsible for people dying of curses. Once you accept that you’re cursed, the nocebo effect takes it from there. It seems like we should be educating the terminally ill on the magnitude of this condition. via Reddit
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