Joel Hammer wrote: > Second item worth bringing up. I was running konqueror (redhat 7.1) as a > remote application on my wife's new linux box (an old retread win98 box), > and all was well. I was reading the NYTimes, which is free but full of popup > ads. I finally started rejecting cookies from those popup people. Suddenly, > I started getting plugin errors galore from konqueror, which made it almost > unusable. I restarted konqueror, with the same problem. So, I reset the > cookie policy to accept those cookies again, and the problem went away. > > This seems like a bug in konqueror or a clever way for the NYTimes to > avoid parasites like me. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I read the NYT website all the time with Mozilla. My cookie preference is set to allow only cookies originating from the site, and i don't have any problems. I've only encountered a 1-time popup at the NYT site, and it occurs on the front page. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 1:35pm up 9 days, 20:30, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.35, 0.49 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
