# Stop moving the "next" button for slideshows **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 20, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334 "2012-10-20T16:51:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/1 "2012-10-20T16:51:21Z")
Goddammit. I don’t have all the time in the world. I want to flip through your slideshow quickly. So please fucking put the “next” button in the same place on every slide so I can just click-click-click. Instead I click and I’ve accidentally clicked on something else and I’m nowhere that I want to be. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/2 "2012-10-20T17:35:36Z")
I heartily endorse this pitting!!! I’ve clicked on far too many ads, links, and [del]nipples[/del] other unintended things because of that migrating “next” button. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/3 "2012-10-20T17:41:13Z")
Oh, absolutely - “migrating next button” indeed! I too want to just clickclickclick, not find my mouse, find the next next button, keep on hunting around for it - it’s not like it’s a huge deal to find the next next button, but it would just be SOOOOO easy to have it in the same damned place! ---
**Author:** ![blueslipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@blueslipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueslipper)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/4 "2012-10-20T19:14:44Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Goddammit. I don’t have all the time in the world. I want to flip through your slideshow quickly. So please fucking put the “next” button in the same place on every slide so I can just click-click-click. Instead I click and I’ve accidentally clicked on something else and I’m nowhere that I want to be. I also hate having to scroll down the page every time to see the picture and/or hit the ‘next’ button ! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/5 "2012-10-20T19:37:44Z")
> [@blueslipper](#): > > I also hate having to scroll down the page every time to see the picture and/or hit the ‘next’ button ! If the slide show isn’t all that interesting, that’ll usually make me back off the page and find something else to do. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/6 "2012-10-20T19:40:01Z")
how about we just stop it with the slideshows altogether and just put it on one freakin’ page. ---
**Author:** ![blueslipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@blueslipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueslipper)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/7 "2012-10-20T19:45:17Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > If the slide show isn’t all that interesting, that’ll usually make me back off the page and find something else to do. I do not know about the OP, but I would not be looking at the gallery if it was not interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/8 "2012-10-20T19:45:47Z")
Next time you’re in a slideshow, check to see if the right arrow key on your keyboard takes you to the next slide. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/9 "2012-10-20T20:13:26Z")
> [@blueslipper](#): > > I do not know about the OP, but I would not be looking at the gallery if it was not interesting. Sometimes they seem promising based on the title and then turn out to be boring, but if it’s easy to flip through (and I’m bored) and it’s only 10 or 15 slides, I’ll finish it…unless I have to scroll down to the slide after each frame. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/10 "2012-10-20T22:43:31Z")
> [@blueslipper](#): > > I do not know about the OP, but I would not be looking at the gallery if it was not interesting. 1. I have a lot of things to go, so even if its interesting I want to be able to move fast. 2. I might be looking for something in particular. 3. There are reasons other than “interesting” to look at a gallery, such as, I need to see what’s in it for work purposes or non-recreational personal purposes, like real estate listings. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/11 "2012-10-21T02:03:24Z")
Use the [deslider](http://deslide.clusterfake.net/) and save yourself the trouble, in addition to not feeding their click-through rates and encouraging them to continue doing it on the basis of ad views. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/12 "2012-10-21T23:42:25Z")
I hate having to open IE just to see some shit, (photoplasty) cause it wont work in FF. I’m Looking at u CRACKED. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/13 "2012-10-22T00:11:52Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > I hate having to open IE just to see some shit, (photoplasty) cause it wont work in FF. For some reason, YouTube and some other video sites won’t work in FF any more, so I have to open IE for Cheezburgers. Also, I am tired of hunting for the “close window” X in a lot of pop-ups. Sometimes I want popups, so I don’t block all of them. But I’d like a consistent place for that X. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/14 "2012-10-22T00:23:40Z")
A Mod should change the title of this thread. It should be: **Stop using slideshows**. Cracked works fine in Firefox. I click the not-too-obvious “Article View” button, but even in slideshow it works. Does that view work? Youtube works fine, except the videos don’t load all the way for me. But then that same problem is present in IE and Chrome. Guys, I would disable plugins selectively until you find one that’s messing it up. The consistent place is Ctrl+W. Or Alt-F4. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/15 "2012-10-23T00:15:32Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I heartily endorse this pitting!!! > > I’ve clicked on far too many ads, links, and [del]nipples[/del] other unintended things because of that migrating “next” button. Yip. And the thing is, I think that’s what they want, for you to accidentally click on ads But why? It just makes you commit fraud. When a website has frustrated your attempt to use it, are you really going to be in a mood to even bother reading the ad? What I find more annoying is websites that actually reload the entire page to move the slide show. Yeah, I know you want to make me see a new ad. So, you know, how about updating the ad and the picture? That way, the screen doesn’t have to jump. At least, with the buttons moving, I can believe that’s a coding error. The above is just lazy. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/16 "2012-10-23T01:31:19Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It just makes you commit fraud. Fraud? ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/17 "2012-10-23T06:39:04Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Fraud? Clicking on a banner without meaning to peruse the ad site, thereby conning the advertiser out of their hard-earned money. I believe it’s a felony in 47 states. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/18 "2012-10-23T13:21:32Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > Clicking on a banner without meaning to peruse the ad site, thereby conning the advertiser out of their hard-earned money. I believe it’s a felony in 47 states. [drama queen] OMG I’m going to JAIL [/drama queen] ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334/19 "2012-10-23T16:48:23Z")
Related to this: Gmail, please stop randomly changing the width of each email as I flick through them one by one. You seem to base this on the length of the Subject line. Just wrap it onto the next line and keep the emails the same width, dickwads.