Problem with Yahoo Mail

[Janet Wider]

I am having a problem with Yahoo! Mail on
Firefox. The respond pane seems to be wider than the viewing area. The
word wrap does not take the next word to the next line. It stretches out
beyond the visible area of the pane. Using the mouse on the pane
extender will show the words, but not all the words are in the pane at
one time. There does not seem to be any way to extend the pane, like
with an arrow that will appear with a mouse movement on the border.

It is happening on both my netbook which is Windows 7 Lite and my desk
top which is Windows XP SP3.

Both machines are running the latest release, 22.0, and I believe that
the problem began to occur concurrent with installing the latest version
of Firefox.

Can someone suggest a way to either increase the size of the response
message pane, or get the word wrap to work better in that pane.

The problem does not occur when using Chrome, so I have to believe it is
something in the latest version of FF that is causing the problem.

I have changed font sizes in various places, including Firefox and
Yahoo! to no avail. The word wrap continues to extend beyond the
viewable area.

TIA

I cannot find anything on Yahoo! help or other groups regarding this
problem.
--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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[Peter Holsberg]

Janet Wider has written on 7/1/2013 2:03 PM:

> I am having a problem with Yahoo! Mail on
> Firefox. The respond pane seems to be wider than the viewing area. The
> word wrap does not take the next word to the next line. It stretches out
> beyond the visible area of the pane. Using the mouse on the pane
> extender will show the words, but not all the words are in the pane at
> one time. There does not seem to be any way to extend the pane, like
> with an arrow that will appear with a mouse movement on the border.

Not sure of your terminology, but here's what I see.

1) Inbox window looks OK
2) Open a message and the resulting pane has a horizontal scroll bar if
the lines in the message are long.

Is that what you mean?

The same thing happens in chrome.

[Janet Wider]

That is not it.

I'll try to be more specific:

1) open an email and it is fine within the pane.

2) respond to the email and the word wrap goes beyond the edge of the
pane. The pane extends beyond the border on the screen. I cannot see
the entire message that I have typed unless I use the mouse to move the
pane sideways.

I will try for a screen shot.

The problem does not occur in Chrome.

[Peter Holsberg]

Janet Wider has written on 7/1/2013 6:36 PM:

> On 7/1/2013 1:29 PM, Peter Holsberg wrote:
>> Janet Wider has written on 7/1/2013 2:03 PM:
>>> I am having a problem with Yahoo! Mail on
>>> Firefox. The respond pane seems to be wider than the viewing area. The
>>> word wrap does not take the next word to the next line. It stretches out
>>> beyond the visible area of the pane. Using the mouse on the pane
>>> extender will show the words, but not all the words are in the pane at
>>> one time. There does not seem to be any way to extend the pane, like
>>> with an arrow that will appear with a mouse movement on the border.
>>
>> Not sure of your terminology, but here's what I see.
>>
>> 1) Inbox window looks OK
>> 2) Open a message and the resulting pane has a horizontal scroll bar if
>> the lines in the message are long.
>>
>> Is that what you mean?
>>
>> The same thing happens in chrome.
>>
>
> That is not it.
>
> I'll try to be more specific:
>
> 1) open an email and it is fine within the pane.
>
> 2) respond to the email and the word wrap goes beyond the edge of the
> pane. The pane extends beyond the border on the screen. I cannot see
> the entire message that I have typed unless I use the mouse to move the
> pane sideways.

Are you saying that the new stuff you type does not wrap at the edge of
the compose pane?

It does for me.

> I will try for a screen shot.

Please. You can send it to my email address directly.

> The problem does not occur in Chrome.

For me, Chrome and FF behave the same. But maybe I am looking at
something different.

[Janet Wider]

Here is the screen print. http://i43.tinypic.com/wsuu6g.jpg

As you can see, the words go beyond the edges of the visible screen.


I know the problem developed when the new version of FF was installed.
It had bigger font that I can't figure out how to reduce and that might
be the cause of the problem.

Chrome does NOT behave the same way.

[dillinger]

On 07/02/2013 02:53 AM, Janet Wider wrote:
> As you can see, the words go beyond the edges of the visible screen.
>
>
> I know the problem developed when the new version of FF was installed.
> It had bigger font that I can't figure out how to reduce and that might
> be the cause of the problem.
>
> Chrome does NOT behave the same way.

I don't know how to fix the wrapping beyond the edge of your message, it
doesn't happen here.

What you can do is remove the white space reserved for ads on the right.

Add:

@-moz-document domain(mail.yahoo.com) {
.panescroll #shellcontent,
.panescroll #toolbar {
right: 0px !important;
}
}

to \your_profile\chrome\userContent.css

[Janet Wider]

Would you be so kind as to give me a step-by-step to do that?

I don't know where to find the place to add the code.

Thank you.

[Janet Wider]

On 7/2/2013 2:56 PM, dillinger wrote:

This is what my profile chrome looks like. It's not the same as you posted.

http://i44.tinypic.com/fxclk0.jpg

[dillinger]

You found it :). Al you have to do is rename userContent-example.css to
userContent.css and add the lines I posted above to it.
You can edit it with any text editor, it's a plain text file.

[Zanqeutil]

dillinger schreef:

This works great, it completely removed the white space reserved for ads
on the right side. I did not know this space was reserved for ads.
I just wondered why Yahoo Mail suddenly made windows so narrow.
I did never see ads because AdBlock Plus supressed them.
When I temporarily disabled AdBlock Plus I saw the ads appearing.

I used your code in userContent.css and now the 'Yahoo Mail look' is
back to normal. Many thanks for this great tip !

Zanqeutil

[Peter Holsberg]

Zanqeutil has written on 7/4/2013 6:34 AM:

Does this affect any other web pages?

[dillinger]

No, only pages at mail.yahoo.com using these class and id combinations.