It appears that new code is being put in on some views so they will use all that grey area, left and right for advertisements. I've seen that and wonder if that is what you are seeing.
Bob
Hi, Lee.
This just started today -- in Netscape, the left 1-2 inches of the forum are off the left side of the page, and there's no slider bar to allow a complete view. This happened Wednesday overnight into Thursday sometime -- things were fine Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, but by around 10am PST there was this problem...
Thanks -- Dave K.

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