DoctorBill wrote:
DoctorBill wrote:
I am seeing some websites on SeaMonkey now - NOT responding to mouse
clicks on links.
Often happens in gmail and FoxNews' web site. Nothing comes up on
Malawarebytes.....
A few times, if I hold down the Ctrl Key AND then mouse click, I will
get action.
Do I have some "Toggle" in SM set incorrectly ?
If most websites work fine, and it's just a few that behave strangely,
your settings are probably fine and it's probably script on those pages
as you suspect below.
On FoxNews, I can get to an obvious link by right clicking and saving
the link, then pasting
it into the Location bad.......but no action clicking on the link on the
FoxNews page.
I suspect there are "Scripts" running that have taken over and have shut
down the page
while they are loading. Could I be correct ?
Quite likely. Either there's so much script running that your browser
slows to a crawl, or the links themselves are implemented via scripting
which might not work until the page has completely loaded (or, in some
cases, might only work with some browsers - document downloads on my
pension provider's website are currently implemented through some
convoluted scripting which only works in Internet Explorer!)
I know pretty much zip
about web site
construction. How does one control "Scripts" ?
Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Scripts & Plugins
- Disabling "Enable JavaScript for Browser" will prevent any scripts
from running. But you might find that some sites are not usable at all
with scripting disabled. Some seem to rely on scripting for even basic
functionality, such as loading images and following links, and don't
have any fallback when scripting is disabled.
- There are a few other options just below that which can disable the
more invasive things scripts might do. I don't think any of them would
affect what you're seeing though. I've disabled all except "Disable or
replace context menus"; even with that enabled, if a script has replaced
the context (right-click) menu after right-clicking you can press the
"Esc" key to close the script's menu and get the normal one.
A more extreme option is the NoScript extension to block scripts by
default until you explicitly allow them to run or whitelist them. That
does sometimes take a bit of experience and experimentation to work out
which scripts are needed for a page to work properly. Disabling scripts
for a page could make it more responsive, or could prevent it from
working at all; some even show up almost completely blank until scripts
are enabled.
I sometimes get a message that a script is running.... stop continue
drop dead.....
DoctorBill
Ah - yes....great interest in my questions......
I might add, what is this window that sometimes opens when I right click
on a
tab and it asks me "Do I REALLY want to close this page ?"
Seldom happens - why ?
That one's almost certainly script on the page. Their page is so
important that you're unlikely to want to look at anything else.
Therefore you must have accidentally clicked away from it and will of
course welcome the opportunity to stay after all...
--
Mark.
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