David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/2/11 8:34 AM, Tom S. wrote:
Hello all,
I have SM 2.4.1 running on Win XP SP3.
Here's something that's bugged me for a long while. I
thought eventually someone else would bring it up
and soon after, it would be fixed. Oh well.
Why is it SM no longer stops pop-ups?
When a page loads that has a pop-up, I have
assigned a "pop" sound and the highlighted
exclamation point shows on the bottom toolbar. But
then, if I should click anywhere on the page, the
pop-up will open into a new tab, instead of
remaining suppressed. This happens on almost all
websites that use pop-ups. (Oftentimes, they will
use Flash for these pop-ups, but the Flashblock
extension disables it, so it only shows the "F"
button.)
Is there anything I can change to prevent the
pop-ups from happening?
TIA.
Initially, popups (I almost typed poopups, which might be appropriate)
were separate Web pages launched by scripts in the page you wanted to
see. Today, many popups are artifacts of CSS, Flash, or scripts
themselves (without launching anything).
If they are from Flash, I strongly recommend Flashblock at
<http://flashblock.mozdev.org/>. I normally run with this enabled. It
allows me to display a Flash presentation by clicking an icon on the
page containing Flash.
If you know a page uses JavaScript for a popup, you can disable
JavaScript. I have the PrefBar extension (from
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/67148/>) installed
with a checkbox on the PrefBar toolbar for enabling and disabling
JavaScript. It's very, very handy. I normally run with JavaScript
enabled. However, when SeaMonkey seems to be operating strangely, I
disable JavaScript; then, SeaMonkey usually returns to normal behavior.
Similarly, I also have a checkbox on the PrefBar toolbar for enabling
and disabling CSS. While disabling CSS strips away almost all
formatting, a well-designed Web page should still have understandable
content.
As I mentioned, I have Flashblock. I also have
PrefBar, but constantly needing to toggle
JavaScript on & off seems a bit impractical.
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