Resolved Blue banner suddenly blocking half my screen

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The Home Shop Machinist blue banner, normally a thin block at the top of my screen, is now blocking half my entire screen. What gives?
 
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jmarkwolf said:
The Home Shop Machinist blue banner, normally a thin block at the top of my screen, is now blocking half my entire screen. What gives?
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On my system, I tried two separate browsers (FireFox, Chromium Brave) and they both behave the same way. If you scroll to the very top, the HM logo is almost a couple of inches tall, with a big block of blue to the right, and the menu bar strip below the logo.

Then, when you scroll down the page, the logo and expanse of blue is displaced upwards, until the logo has gone. At this point, the blue menu bar re-draws as a thin blue strip with text in white, stuck at the top, while the rest of the page continues scrolling.

I think that is how it is supposed to work. A half-screen zoom sounds wrong!
 
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I'm having the same problem. Tonight I changed from Google Chrome browser to Firefox and that seems to be working thus far.
 
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graham-xrf said:
On my system, I tried two separate browsers (FireFox, Chromium Brave) and they both behave the same way. If you scroll to the very top, the HM logo is almost a couple of inches tall, with a big block of blue to the right, and the menu bar strip below the logo.

Then, when you scroll down the page, the logo and expanse of blue is displaced upwards, until the logo has gone. At this point, the blue menu bar re-draws as a thin blue strip with text in white, stuck at the top, while the rest of the page continues scrolling.

I think that is how it is supposed to work. A half-screen zoom sounds wrong!
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This functionality as you describe is correct. It is working as it should.

jmarkwolf said:
The Home Shop Machinist blue banner, normally a thin block at the top of my screen, is now blocking half my entire screen. What gives?
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This I cannot speak to without more information. Nothing should be half your screen size on the site. Can you take a screen shot and post it here please so I can try to understand what is happening?

Also, it isn't The Home Shop Machinist - it is The Hobby Machinist. Thanks!
 
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Seedtick said:
I'm having the same problem. Tonight I changed from Google Chrome browser to Firefox and that seems to be working thus far.
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You did the right thing!
Now for a new experience, install the add-on extensions uBlock Origin, and NoScript, and work it to use which scripts you trust.

I also found the Brave browser, which is based on Chromium (the open source core of Google Chrome) is good, so long as you don't turn on the rewards feature.

I really hated reading pages down a thin strip in the middle, with flashing adverts each side, and being shown stuff through a bubble filter that supposedly "knows" the stuff they think I want to see. I hated the thought of being profiled by the use of 1-pixel size transparent GIF images hidden in any clickable link, for making "metadata" stored in "the cloud" for everything. I make the cookies get dumped when I close the browser, and I block the javascript that works evercookies (look them up). No cross-site scripting allowed, and Canvas Defender keeps showing me which sites unsuccessfully attempted canvas fingerprinting (eBay).

And best of all, I have never yet seen a YT video interrupted by an advertisement. If there was an advert - it was intentionally in the video, or the whole video was an advert. Call me picky if you like, but I force the applications to be the way I want them to be. I may not win this cyber-warfare, the script kiddies are too smart for me, but I can lie and cheat and misinform to generate a bizarre profile, and be labeled "unreliable". Also, I keep updating (replacing) the OS.
 
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OP (original poster) here.

Screen capture of my screen attached below.

Please advise.

Hobby_machinist_blue_banner.jpg
 
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OP here with a better screen capture. The blue part is stationary and blocks fully half the screen, the rest of the screen scrolls under the blue part.

I haven't changed the browser I use in years, the OS is Win10, the screen behaves properly on every other operation and website.

Please advise.

Hobby_machinist_blue_banner2.jpg
 
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Seedtick said:
I'm having the same problem. Tonight I changed from Google Chrome browser to Firefox and that seems to be working thus far.
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Hey Guys, I know you're busier than a cat covering up doodee.....the backup we're running now has this same banner problem I was having but with a twist. The difference is that it also does it on the Firefox browser. Maybe when you get all the other kinks ironed out this will be fixed as well.
Greg
 
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