Re: [SLUG] Laptop riot

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 17:00:42 EDT


On 8/17/05, Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> >On 8/17/05, Pete Theisen <petet@acun.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Chuck Hast wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I clicked on it and got the art. and a POPUP... And I have popups turned off on
> >>>Firefox... Guess they have found a work around for that one too. Blasted trash.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Hi Chuck!
> >>
> >>Switch to full Mozilla - no popup with full Mozilla. Yeah, it's bloated,
> >>I know.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Just turned off the java scripting that took care of it.
> >
> >
> >
> Firefox has a problem allowing flash applications the ability to open
> popups by default (the cause of many of those popups after you've
> disabled them). Pete Bevin's blog has a great quick fix for this: set
> privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins = 2.
>
> http://www.petebevin.com/archives/2005/03/10/firefox_popups.html
>
> I mirrored it in my blog:
>
> http://ian.blenke.com/computers/software/opensource/web/firefox/
>
> This may or may not help with that page: firefox caught the popup for me
> and supressed it.
>
Ian,
Tnx I think that this will take care of it. The bugger does not always pop up
so it must check something.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."

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