Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > 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. -- >> 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. > > -- > War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
I'm referring to the throbber in Seamonkey, not anything on the website. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
