Web links hidden on PC

My involvement in IT predates floppy drives.... 

I too had a Sinclair and a Casio hand held PC and the huge HP boxes. Didn't even know what viruses outside the human body were then..

The web issue I can live with its just an irritation. . These I really would like fixed.

Garmin gives the option to manually set the time but not the date. Why not ?

I live in an open area in Christchurch, it can take 8 minutes for my GPS to connect. By that stage I'm 1.5 km into my run. Is this normal ?

My alarm goes off in the morning at 7:00 Am.in the morning.  Many times, when I turn it off, it shows 4:00 AM for a while. Maybe 5 minutes later, it corrects itself. 

And we wont even talk about the breaths per minute. I understand it is based on heart rate divided by 4. When I'm meditating, 5-6 breaths per minute, it still says 14.

Marsheng said:

The web issue I can live with its just an irritation

I think it's more than an irritation. As evidenced by the other thread, the invisible side bar menu is preventing you from using the Connect website properly, as you were unable to find the HRV Status page.

Even if you were able to find all the pages you need by hovering over invisible menu items, that doesn't really sound like an efficient or fun user experience.

Again I will reiterate my advice to use Supermium, if you are unable to upgrade to Win10/11.

https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/ 

I am not sure why you continue to ignore this advice, as it would be a very small change compared to installing a whole new OS, which you have already said you are not willing to do, for various reasons. It's up to you tho.

I don't understand the logic of happily using old, insecure browsers due to staying on Windows 7, but refusing to use an up-to-date browser on Windows 7, when that browser is nothing more than Chrome without the branding.

I've seen others say that they don't trust random browsers. But Supermium is built from the same code as Google Chrome. And to me, it's even harder to trust older browsers, knowing that network-based security flaws are constantly being found and fixed. There's a reason that all software which communicates over the internet is constantly updated, and you often have little or no say over it.

Marsheng said:

I live in an open area in Christchurch, it can take 8 minutes for my GPS to connect. By that stage I'm 1.5 km into my run. Is this normal ?

Which watch do you have? Super old watches, like FR235, could take forever to get a decent fix.

Newer watches will show a green GPS ring very quickly, but sometimes they don't truly have a fix until 30 seconds to a minute of waiting (sometimes a bit longer). (Still better than the old watches.)

Marsheng said:

My alarm goes off in the morning at 7:00 Am.in the morning.  Many times, when I turn it off, it shows 4:00 AM for a while. Maybe 5 minutes later, it corrects itself. 

Do you mean alarm itself or the watchface shows 4:00 AM? If you mean the watchface, do you use a built-in watchface or a Connect IQ watchface? 

Since you are obviously not willing to use supermium, for some unspecified reason, here is an alternate solution will work with Firefox 115.

1) Open Firefox

2) Install https://ublockorigin.com/ 

(it's a Firefox extension which blocks ads and can also change the way pages look)

3) Open the extension settings and select the My Filters tab

4) Make sure "Enable my custom filters" is checked

5) Add the following lines to the custom filters box:

 
 
 
 connect.garmin.com##[class^="MainSidebar_menuItemText"]{opacity: 1 !important; color: white !important; padding-left: 15px !important}
 connect.garmin.com##[class^="MainSidebar_children"]{visibility: visible !important;}
 
 
 

6) Press Apply changes

7) Open [or reload] connect.garmin.com

Here's how it looks in Firefox 115.

Before:

After:

If this is too much, sorry, there's nothing else I can do to help.

Also, to specifically answer your question about why "such a simple thing as highlighting a link is so difficult to do", if you looked at the sidebar menu on a modern browser, you would see that:

- it has a fade in animation when the page loads

- the individual sections (like Activities, Health Stats, etc) can expand and collapse, also with animations

Clearly it's not as simple as you might think.

Should Garmin have used code which works well even on browsers from 2023? Maybe. But they are not going to fix this for a tiny minority of users.

Marsheng said:

Garmin gives the option to manually set the time but not the date. Why not ?

Do you really want an answer to this?

Obviously the normal mode of operation of the watch is to have the time and date set automatically by GPS or by syncing with a bluetooth-connected phone.

For the situations when neither are available, the ability to manually set the time is probably a bit of an escape hatch.

Would it be nice if you could also set the date manually? Sure. Nobody here can help you with that.

Marsheng said:

And we wont even talk about the breaths per minute. I understand it is based on heart rate divided by 4. When I'm meditating, 5-6 breaths per minute, it still says 14.

We can't help you with that, either.