Brief Life History
When you click on "MORE" in the "Brief Life History" section, it expands into a new popup box and blocks the view of everything else. For info comparison, you now have to keep opening and closing the popup. The old method expanded the BLH section and allowed you to open and close it as needed. I found it much easier to use.
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One option is to open two browser windows on your screen, and open a 2nd tab with the person you're wanting to deal with, then click the 2nd instance of the person in the new tap and drag that tag across to the other browser window on your screen. Then size each window to fill 1/2 of your screen and you can easily see any/everything you want to see on the Person Page while also filling in the "Brief Life History" page as desired, with zero switching back and forth even needed. That's one of the beauties of modern graphical user interfaces (GUIs) - the ability to have two screens open at once.
At least in Windows (don't know for sure about Apple products, but they led the way with GUIs so presumably they've got the same capability), you can click the top menu bar of one window you have open on your desktop, drag it down and all the way over to the over to the middle side edge of your screen, release the mouse button, and your window now fits exactly half of the screen. You can then click the other browser window and it will automatically fill the other half of the screen, side-by-side with the first window, or open it up and do the same on the other side of the screen.
That trick works with a window open for any program, not just a browser window. That can, for example, allow you to also have a document open in your word processor concerning that relative on one side of your screen, with the FamilySearch browser window open on the other half of your screen, allowing you to read and type simultaneously from one screen to the other, or to highlight and copy from one screen and merely go over and right-click and paste that same info where you want it on the other side of the screen in FamilySearch.
Some variation of the above may be an excellent substitute (or even a better solution than before) to the problem you raise. For anyone not using two screens but with a large enough primary screen, the dual window capability is a big help.
--Chris
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Thank you for that tip, Chris. That would be one method similar to the one that I now have to use. I open another tab with the same page and toggle between the two with one page having the pop-up open. It's too bad that we now have to take these extra steps. The old method was more efficient.
Regards,
Roger Rempe
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I have started doing exactly what @Chris Bieneman Schmink suggested. I detest pop-ups. Let me emphasize that: I really detest pop-ups. I'd rather have the info expand the way it used to but barring any change-back to that format, this trick allows me to not have to deal with pop-ups at all.
I'm on a PC laptop, Windows 10, Firefox browser (latest update). The screen isn't as wide as my old monitor but even so, I find viewing the info side by side preferable to pop-ups.
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If you have a desk or table on which you spread out your work when you're at home, you might also consider getting a 2nd monitor and connecting it to your laptop. It's fairly easy to learn to use two screens at once, and then you have two very nice sized displays at the same time. Once you've done it just a few times, you'll wonder how you ever did without two screens. Windows does a nice job of allowing a dual monitor setup quite easily. Presumably your laptop has at least an HDMI port that you can use to connect either to a dedicated monitor, or even a smaller TV (such as a 27" or 32" TV with decent resolution). Because my wife has vision issues, I got her a 32" 1080P TV (popular brand Smart TV) and it's large enough by itself to give her two windows that are bigger than her laptop screen, so she normally uses that as her only monitor with the laptop just pushed off to the side. But she also has the option of using it as part of a dual monitor setup (the TV plus the laptop monitor itself).
--Chris
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Thanks Chris. That's a great idea. At work (before I retired) we had dual monitors. It was an immediate benefit when we got them. I now have a project for tomorrow!
Roger
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