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[unbibium]

I was going to do a joke linking an Adam West porno rumor debunkation I got from Fark, with a link to adam.west.isgay.com. So I checked out the latter site to see if the gay-rumor-autogenerator is still up.

It is, but sweet fucking Lord, the popups! Big, insane, tenacious popups.

There was one window that asked "Continue running the program? Yes/No/Cancel" on a common dialog box, it didn't close when I clicked Cancel, but it did when I clicked No. But I can't help but wonder if that dialog box was doing something sneaky.

Time to clear my cookies file.

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Attack of Jabba The Script

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

"Big, insane, tenacious popups."

I'm very surprised a net-vet like you sees pop-up ads.

Froggy thinks you should either get yourself a real browser (one with a preference click to refuse pop-ups), or just have JavaScript turned off on your usual browser.

Re: Attack of Jabba The Script

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

yeah, dumb ol' me uses Internet Explorer because I'm used to Netscape being the only other option, and sucking.

Re: Attack of Jabba The Script

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

What I said some 5 years ago still seems true: all existing browsers are moderately sucky, each in their own special way.

My main browser of choice currently is Opera 6.1 freeware, with no JavaScript. They also have a version which supports JavaScript, with a preferences switch you can set to refuse pop-up windows. I liked some older versions of Opera okay, then it got too buggy or unreliable for me for a while, but the 6.1 + works well for me. The moderately sucky part: the free version has a banner ad in the task bar. It bothers me less than the problems I have with other browsers; I may spring for the ad free pay version some time.

When I want to look at/use a site with JavaScript, I just open another browser that has it enabled. (Usually Netscape, for no particular reason-- I don't use JavaScript enabled sites often enough to evaluate what browser does JS better.)

Yes, I have multiple browsers on my computor. I heartily endorse this. My home computor is a Pent 133 I bought in Jan of '97, and it has no problem with the fact that I have Opera, Mozilla, Netscape (2 versions), IE, and even an old copy of Mosaic and Lynx, on it. So most systems shouldn't have a problem with your having 2 browsers on it.

And if you're trying out browsers, the freeware Mozilla is worth a try (it was my default for a while when Opera was going through an unstable version).

Re: Attack of Jabba The Script

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Jabbascript is occasionally useful for client-side form validation and such. Too many of the sites I go to use it legitimately for me to turn it off.

I kind of feel like grabbing the Mozilla source and commenting out most of the "window.*" functions, though.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Lavasoft. Google for it, download it for free if you don't already have it. It searches out crazy shit on your system that tells people you don't want anything to do with about your system.