I've tried to find answers for the following items with no success - I hope someone here may be able to help.

Summarizing I need help with three issues:

1. Reliable marking / viewing each read thread in forums
2. Use Strikethrough font to indicate which messages have been read
3. Extending the time or removing timeout when using mouse over forum threads to view snippets

Gory details below:

Issues surrounding Forums such as Vbulletin powered sites

IE7 appears to work to some degree - Limited but it does work - FOCK2/FF3 does not

Marking Messages read in Forums & Strikethrough font

Normal action of the user when viewing a list of messages in a Forum usually means clicking the mouse button on each message of interest, reading the content and then returning to the original message list. The return function can occur in one of two ways that I'm familiar with.

1: Using a mouse gesture

2: Selecting the back button within the browser

The issue at hand is when you return to the list. One would expect the last message read and all previous read messages to have a unique identification. For example, color change, font change, something to instantly indicate to the user you've been there and done that before.

Someone suggested:

Reloading a WEB page via the 'Reload' button is way over the top and not a reasonable solution.

If someone comes into a forum and only looks at couple of messages then this is not a big deal. Those of us who care to appreciate a bit more from the forum would certainly expect a reasonable user experience i.e. properly marking individual messages as read in an interactive way without using a sledge hammer approach of manually requesting a web page reload each time an individual message is read.

Due to poor color recognition the ability to set READ forum threads to Strikethrough font would be great if I could find out how to and have the transition actually work after each message is read.

Lengthen the time that thread snippets are viewable on the screen would be helpful - some browsers keep the snippet on screen as long as the mouse cursor hovers over the thread while others appear to timeout quickly - either being able to lengthen the time or no time out would be ideal.

I really appreciate any help whether it can be done via Flock natively or via some add-on???

Ren