Suppression of nav bars (chrome) in web-content overlays

We've started to experiment with creating interactive content within folios, using web content overlays and HTML5/AJAX.
Problem is the nav bars/chrome (whatever you want to call them) in Adobe Viewer pop up constantly, and unpredictably - for instance, the chrome will appear the *first* time an HTML button is clicked, but not on subsequent occasions. For other <div> elements that have onclick handlers attached, the nav always seems to appear.
Does anyone have any insight into possible ways of suppressing the nav bars completely for web-content user interaction? Judging by the behaviour of HTML buttons, it seems there has been some effort put into this on Adobe's part, but some concrete insight would be brilliant.
Cheers,
David (Boto Media).

I have already come across these "solutions".
I am on v27 and have been since its release.
I have tried method number one.  It partially works however it is buggy.  When the overlay initially loads, it flashes the Twitter URL before showing the feed in the overlay frame on the article.  Additionally, it sometimes flashes back and forth from the Twitter Feed's URL and displaying the feed itself.  This, for me is not a wholly valid solution but it will do for now since the only thing that remotely works. I suspect the URL flash has alot to do with the network connectivity of the device one is viewing the feed on.  However, to flash that URL before the feed loads makes the overlay appear buggy. 
And the second method most definitely crashes ID ever single time I attempt to preview the overlay either on desktop or iPad.  And I have tried this method on several different machines, thinking it was my copy of ID.  It still crashes upon preview, so mehtod two is not a valid solution at all, unless there is something special that needs to be in the HTML file (besides the twitter widget) for it to not crash ID, that I am unaware of.
Thank you for your assistance.

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