Is MG playing games again?

I use Firefox 22 with AdBlock Plus and NoScrpt and I've noticed that the MG.com site has a rectangular white object with a dark background that shows up on the site, which disappears when clicking anywhere off the object. What gives here?

 

I have the same as you but have adblock and noscript turned off for MG only.

Out of curiosity, I turned them both back on and refreshed the page, still the same MG just minus the ads.

 

I go back to my homepage then I push Ctrl-Shift-Delete which clears all items in FF and then do an F5 which refreshes my homepage then go to MG's page and the white rectangle with dark background reappears. I have FF set to not remember previous sites.

 

Sorry, I'm just not getting what you are. I even marked mg as untrusted in noscrpt, refreshed the page and still didn't get the box you're getting. Have you tried another browser to see if you are getting the same problem?

 

I have a blue box top right that is a facebook like button and it floats over the top of the quick links button on the top bar. This prevents me using quick links because it brings up the create a new facebook account page whenever I click on quick links
I am using the latest Chrome and AdBlock + can't get rid of it :confused As I don't ever use any social networks it is all wasted on me and is just a nuisance

 

If I disable AdBlock + the Facebook like button is still displayed floating over the Quick Links drop down button and also the buttons appear on the left side. These are the only elements I block as they will never be of value to me as I never use social networks.
Just noticed when in advanced edit reply mode the facebook like button is in the correct place above the quick links drop down any other page the problem occurs. Didn't try with IE as don't use it maybe I will install later.

 

When I used IE, it turns out that it's a Facebook "Like us" plugin rectangle that disappears when you click the X.

 

Just installed IE 10 and then IE 11 and all pages display the facebook like button correctly so not an MG problem per se
In my case it must be a Chrome page formatting issue and it is just an annoyance not really a problem as everything else is OK. My work around is to click on the drop down arrow not the words quick links as the arrow is just outside the button's boundary

Just as an aside using IE again reminded me of why I went to Firefox for a while and then settled on Chrome ........ hmmmm maybe I should give Firefox another run
Back on Chrome now though :cool

 

Sort of is and I'll give you an example. The company I work for has several websites and we pay our site designers and coders extra to do full compatibility testing for the four major browsers being IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari and usually have no problems. On the other hand one of our major global suppliers based in London only design their website to be compatible with IE8 and later. If we want to use our trade login we have to use IE because no other browser can login (now it is actually rejected). We drew the supplier's IT people's attention to the problem and they said they had no intention of spending any money to fix it because everyone can use IE and so now all other browsers are excluded so problem solved rolleyes

I am not saying this is the situation here at MG but it is conceivable that if money or time was tight then the added cost and extra time for compatibility testing means it could fall by the wayside.

For me it doesn't really matter but for Puppywunder58 sounds like the whole button and box is being displayed as an opaque coloured rectangle on the top layer and when you click somewhere else on the page it loses focus and goes behind but that's just me guessing

 

We are agreed then coz I understand about having to raise revenue as I too have also run a forum and so that's why I only block the social media buttons and let the rest through so MG still gets some revenue. Personally I just don't like social media and have chosen not to use it where possible.
If you want a laugh ......... don't tell anyone..............I actually have to use facebook and twitter and yammer at work as three of our sites have Twitter and Facebook feeds and we use yammer for information sharing within the company ........oh and yes we have like buttons on all our sites too..... ugh rolleyes

Looks like we've hijacked the thread LOL