I don't normally mind ads, but when the ad takes over, it ticks me off. A few times today I've had to switch forums to get to one of the menu bar items.
For some reason the ad took over, here's how it looked.

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I had this issue just after installing FF 2.0. I found an extension called flashblocker that basically blocks flash item from displaying unless you want them to. It puts a little circle the alternates between an F looking thing and a play button. Anyway. That fixed mine. Having the ad appear above the drop down menus really should be considered a bug and the appropriate people placed in a small room with only a slightly warped Yoko Ono 8 track for company.

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A Geek will think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

It's nothing new. See topic Shopzilla Flash ad conflicts with menus? from a year ago.

(My last report there was of a Flash ad that didn't cause the problem, but it wasn't evidence that the problem went away, just that some Flash ads don't cause the problem. I've continued to experience it and just work around it. I don't use the menus much, and they aren't Flash much.)

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Thanks;
I couldn't find it because my search menu was hidden.

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Install the Adblock extension into Firefox. Once you enable that, you'll never see another ad... anywhere. That's what I use.

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Unfortunately (at least at work) IE is the company standard, and I do development. I'm not about to cloud any testing issues.

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As far as I can tell, ALL ads just under that menu bar,
including text ads, make the drop-down menus inaccessible
to me. Using IE 5.0 My solution is to open the link in a
new window.

Not that doing so would fix this problem, but is it possible to
install IE 5.5 in Windows 98 SE? I tried but failed.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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That's what I have on my win98SE machine, so it's definitely possible.

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Hey, Henrik, that's great to hear! Do you recall how you
installed it?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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"The other planets?
Well, they just happen to be there, but the point of rockets is to explore them!"
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I don't recall, so there can't have been much difficulty, which suggests I simply downloaded it and ran the setup program.

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