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#1  Edited By Elk
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Open Chrome and press F12, or Firefox and CTRL + Shift + K. Go to the console and paste in:

$('head').append('<meta name="roles" content="elkrules" /> ');

The button should now work

You can also do this on a forum and use it to post images!

Screenshots from Firefox, Chrome and IE:

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#2  Edited By Elk
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BOOM!

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#3 Gamer_4_Fun
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Paste where exactly inside the console?

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#4 Elk
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Like this

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#5 Profilia  Moderator
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Thanks! You're awesome. :)

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#6 Dudersaper
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Thanks, you do rule!

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#7 Elk
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@deershadow: Whoop! Glad it worked for you!

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#8 VintAge68
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@Elk: I'd like to try it out but cannot save after pasting the line into the Chrome Settings' "console". When giving "enter" the only reaction I get is "TypeError: Cannot call method 'append' of null" ... :(

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#9 Elk
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@VintAge68: Hey VintAge! That doesn't make a lot of sense. But try this line instead, make sure you have the entire line starting with the $

$('body').append('<meta name="roles" content="elkrules" /> ');

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#10 Blueresident87
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Thx for this, but isn't there a permanent fix? Every time I leave the page I have to go back to console and re-enter this

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#11 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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Worked a treat, thanks dude :)

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#12 Elk
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@Blueresident87: GameSpot will have to do the permanent fix, but from looking at the code, people with the staff badge don't get this issue, so they might not have noticed.

You can put the line back in quickly by just hitting the up arrow and pressing enter to re-enter the last line you used in the console, so that helps a little.

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#13 Elk
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@seanmcloughlin: No problem mate!

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#14 Blueresident87
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@Elk: Ah, that does help a little. Hopefully they'll get the problem figured out to where this isn't necessary at some point.

Thanks a lot for your help

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#16  Edited By nightcall14
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Just so everyone knows, you can open the console in firefox by pressing CTRL + Shift + K. I inserted the same code as above and it works.

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#17 XanderZane
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Why do we need to use Chrome to change our avatar. I use FireFox and IE and neither of the most popular browsers work. Like the old site, I still can't post comments on the reviews or news sites. Its ridiculous. Using IE, I couldn't even post on the forums. Kept saying "Page Error" at the bottom.

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#18  Edited By VintAge68
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@Elk: Thank you, I put the entire line, $ included, but how do I save it after pasting it into? The line disappears right after closing the console/settings...

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#19  Edited By deactivated-5e90a3763ea91
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@XanderZane said:

Why do we need to use Chrome to change our avatar. I use FireFox and IE and neither of the most popular browsers work.

I concur. I'm not gonna go and download a browser I don't use just to fix this. But it's cool for people that use Chrome I guess.

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#20 Elk
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It works just fine in Firefox

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#21 CptJSparrow
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This works for signatures too, but you have to enable signatures on the forum in your settings page.

It appears that your image will be scaled down to GS's specifications.

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#22 LJS9502_basic
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Didn't work for me...

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#23 Elk
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@VintAge68: Just do that on the settings page and then hit the avatar upload button.

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#24 Elk
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@LJS9502_basic: I can help (probably) but I'm going to need more info.

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#25 Randolph
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Anyway to make this work on Safari?

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#26  Edited By Pirate700
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@LJS9502_basic said:

Didn't work for me...

I figured it out. You have to leave the console panel open still when you click the buttons.

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#27  Edited By Elk
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@Randolph: If you have the "Develop" bar in safari you should be able to open a console with CTRL+ALT+C (Show Error Console)

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#28  Edited By CptJSparrow
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@LJS9502_basic said:

Didn't work for me...

did you press enter? :P

also, you have to save settings at the bottom of the page

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#29 deactivated-5e90a3763ea91
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Okay, I'm not as computer savvy as ya'll. I only ever seem to get the console open when my cat walks across my keyboard, so how do I open the console?

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#30  Edited By Elk
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@Ovirew: It's usually F12. Or put the cat back on the keyboard.

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#31 LJS9502_basic
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@Elk said:

@LJS9502_basic: I can help (probably) but I'm going to need more info.

F12 isn't doing anything on Firefox.

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#32  Edited By Elk
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@LJS9502_basic: Ahh, my bad. That's because I have something installed at my end that makes F12 work. Try CTRL + Shift + K.

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#33 VintAge68
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@Elk: It won't work, I'm afraid--I can't even click "select image", nor upload images in a blog. Thank you anyway!

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#34  Edited By LJS9502_basic
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@Elk said:

@LJS9502_basic: Ahh, my bad. That's because I have something installed at my end that makes F12 work. Try CTRL + Shift + K.

Is there something to hit to save or will enter suffice?

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#35 Elk
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@VintAge68: Sorry about that, I'm not sure what's missing. Different browser perhaps?

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#36 Elk
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@LJS9502_basic: Enter is great, then just hit the image button. You'll have to do this again if you refresh or change the page.

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@Elk said:

@Ovirew: It's usually F12. Or put the cat back on the keyboard.

aha, actually it isn't F12 I guess, but it's an option called 'inspect element'. I think that's it anyway. oO

It's kinda tricky to figure out.

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#38 LJS9502_basic
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@Elk said:

@LJS9502_basic: Enter is great, then just hit the image button. You'll have to do this again if you refresh or change the page.

Thanks.....

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#39 CptJSparrow
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They're going to regret making it so that we can only post pics by uploading.

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#40 Elk
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@CptJSparrow: At least we won't get as much dead image rot in old threads.

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#41 Pirate700
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@LJS9502_basic said:

@Elk said:

@LJS9502_basic: Enter is great, then just hit the image button. You'll have to do this again if you refresh or change the page.

Thanks.....

You have an avy! I can recognize you now! lol

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#42 freedomfreak
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Thanks, Elk.

Now I feel bad for shooting your mates in GTAV.

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#43 deactivated-5e90a3763ea91
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One less orange robocop!

Thanks for posting this thread. I will stop posting here now.

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@freedomfreak: Leave the Elk alone!

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#45 Elk
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@Ovirew: I'm just trying to reduce the rage of the new site. Also I can't tell who people are when they don't have avatars XD

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#46 Pirate700
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Thanks for the help, Elk.

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#47 ArisShadows
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Thanks Elk.

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#48 freedomfreak
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@Elk: Haha, will do, man. Only pedestrians from now on.

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#49 Pirate700
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I'm not seeing a lot of signatures in here. lol

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thanx :)