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TheVisitor
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Not sure when it happened but I think today, possibly after updating my video driver on Intel 630 chipset. The info on the right-side of page grew in width, there is a large blank area to the right of text in all the info boxes. Happens on Chrome/Edge/and Nightly.

Anyone see a change before I go to trouble to downgrade the driver ?
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Not seeing that here
Edit: Changed zoom levels up and down still looks normal
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Seeing it here in Nightly on Ubuntu 18.04 and I haven't updated any drivers lately, unless you call completely reinstalling the operating system an update.

It did install, and I am using the NVidia driver,
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Thanks Maliz , Waltz... not a big deal I guess... just looks odd. Guess I will hold off rolling back the video chipset driver update.

I'm recovering from this damn thing called Covid, have no idea how or where I got it, but me and the wife both got it.. Unfortunately I have spent 9 days in the hospital, got home yesterday but am very weak and tire out easy, also on oxygen. Bleh!
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At least you made it out of hospital be careful
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malliz wrote:At least you made it out of hospital be careful

Thanks..
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@TheVisitor

Google changed the input element styling. That's the cause for me.

ENHANCED BY Google
http://www.google.com/cse/static/images ... anding.png

The width decreases after removing the style attribute using the console.

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document.querySelector("#cse-search-box > div > input[style]").removeAttribute("style");
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morat wrote:@TheVisitor

Google changed the input element styling. That's the cause for me.

ENHANCED BY Google
http://www.google.com/cse/static/images ... anding.png

The width decreases after removing the style attribute using the console.

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document.querySelector("#cse-search-box > div > input[style]").removeAttribute("style");
Thanks... that removal via console is not a permanent solution I suppose. Something we will have to live with as I doubt Google would do anything since our forum software is old at this point and not going to get any updates.
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@TheVisitor

I added the code to my mozillaZine userscript. You could add a style to your userContent.css file instead.

Try something like:

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/* Firefox userContent.css */

@-moz-document domain("forums.mozillazine.org") {
  #cse-search-box > div > input[style] {
    border: none !important;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 17px !important;
    height: 15px !important;
    width: 98px !important;
    background: none !important;
  }
}
http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserContent.css

Remember to set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true, then restart.
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FWIW, I also see the wider right forum column using SeaMonkey 2.53.5.1.
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Maybe it's this laptop but the extra space is gone.
Do you suppose the code was modified for laptops and small screens and someone threw out the desktops with the bathwater?
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Grumpus wrote:Maybe it's this laptop but the extra space is gone.
Do you suppose the code was modified for laptops and small screens and someone threw out the desktops with the bathwater?
Extra space is also gone in my desktop Firefox Nightly on Fedora 33 and the left area is now larger.
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Right side still too wide here with the Google search box - today's Nightly on Win10

EDIT: just cleared cookies/site data/cache - no change.
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Here is a screenshot without and with the userscript tweak.

Forum screenshot
http://imgur.com/lYtRppM

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Appears back to normal on the desktop but it takes a while for the pages to complete very often.
In other words login is successful but the bottom 3 panels, Search, knowledge base and mozillazine community info take a while to complete.
Something which may be relative: googleusercontent IPs appear to show up in the traffic monitor when connecting on-line.
Mostly 35.x.x.x but sometimes 34.x.x.x, These IPs used to be id'd as spammers. and there's usually an indication in dnslytics.
Could be Google based ads and not so much Google metrics coming from the Google cloud system.
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