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When I look at a story on Slashdot, I see a side-bar that sits constantly in the upper-left corner. Every time I open a story, I have to click on the "slash" sign in its upper-right corner.

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How can I disable it, so it will always have css position absolute, relative or static? Is there an option for it? Because I find it is slowing my browser down when I am scrolling the page.

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I'm sure I'm being dumb, but I can't recreate - could you post a link? – Andy Jun 3 '10 at 18:24
That is a Screenshot taken from this URL: tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/02/2317241/… The title at the top is the title of my browser's tab. The box below it is always fixed on the page and it is quite annoying. – Tom Jun 3 '10 at 20:06
can you write greasemonkey scripts? – Andy Jun 4 '10 at 12:21
@Andy I had hoped to find a configuration setting. – Tom Jun 5 '10 at 18:17
Understood, don't know if it's possible, not sure how it would be presented if it was. Good luck! – Andy Jun 5 '10 at 19:39
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If you are willing to use the old Slashdot discussion style, you can disable dynamic discussions to remove this. Follow these steps to disable dynamic discussions:

  1. Login
  2. Click on Help & Preferences
  3. Under Discussions click on Viewing
  4. Uncheck Enable Dynamic Discussions
  5. Click Save
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This does solve the problem, but it disables the whole JavaScript. I only want that box to be gone when I scroll down. – Tom Jun 3 '10 at 20:47
@Tom: That is correct. Personally I prefer the old Slashdot comment style but I am used to it because that's how Slashdot has always been in my mind (due to nostalgia). I know of no other way to disable the floating box that follows you down the page via Slashdot's preferences. If you want a solution that specifically solves this problem you will probably have to use a custom browser extension (you'll need to tell us your browser for this). – Trey Hunner Jun 4 '10 at 1:26
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