On 1/27/11 8:49 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 01/27/2011 07:23 AM, Rick Merrill wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: > ... >>> I previously indicated how to TEMPORARILY disable JavaScript and then >>> re-enable it via PrefBar, both very quickly and easily. Solving the >>> problem in the original post to this thread takes only two clicks of a >>> mouse on a checkbox on the browser window, two clicks in two seconds. >> >> Yes you did, but consider that one only recognized that the need to disable >> exists >> after it is TOO LATE! > > David, I think you are missing Rick's point; if you are on the link from > the OP and then close the tab you get nailed by the 'Are you sure you > want to navigate away from this page?' popup. At that point, even with > Prefbar (which I always use), you can't disable the javascript as it has > already been enacted in order to do the popup. Yes, you can disable if > you know the site does this beforehand, but in that case you might want > to: 1) notify the site that you don't appreciate their clever nonsense, > 2) don't visit the site, or 3) both. >
My experience has been that the persistance of the popup requires JavaScript to remain enabled. Thus, if JavaScript is disabled AFTER the problem begins, the popup and the page are both easily dismissed, thus ending the problem. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
