Roger Fink wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Some sites really don't want to let me leave -- they pop up this
nag when I try to close their window.
E.g.,<http://www.mylife.com/>
Is it harmless enough to click "Yes, I really do want you to fuck
off," or should I panic and close the entire browser/email program
with CTRL-Q and never return?
Never click anything on such a site. They may have reprogrammed the
"kill' button to give permission to download an EXE trojan.
Yes, but downloading an .exe file isn't going to cause any harm.
RUNNING the program will. So, no harm in clicking the button, SM
won't allow running the file, only saving it.
Even better, is there a setting in SeaMonkey that will prevent
them from pulling this? Preferably one that doesn't cripple
thousands of other innocuous sites doing legitimate stuff...
Turn off javascript.
Exactly the baby-with-bathwater kind of solution I'm trying to avoid.
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I've got an icon on my toolbar which takes me to about:blank. You could set
the throbber to this in about:config.
If you try it with the example site linked above, you'll see that the
popup dialog doesn't contain a throbber, and you don't have access to
the main window until you close the nag.
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War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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