Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Roberto. Roberto C. Sanchez, 10.01.2007 20:09: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:49:54PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> And how do I >>> prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? >> You could just deactivate JavaScript and prevent yourself from losing a lot >> of >> hair. Maybe th

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:13:03PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:59:37AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I use adblocker extension on firefox and I put in > > *banners.sys-con.com* into ad block and it killed the window, but not > > the pop-up, which is annoying.

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:49:54PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > > And how do I > > prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? > > You could just deactivate JavaScript and prevent yourself from losing a lot of > hair. Maybe there???s an extension for Firefox which lets you enable

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread John Hasler
H.S. writes: > And how do I prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? Mathias writes: > You could just deactivate JavaScript and prevent yourself from losing a > lot of hair. Maybe there’s an extension for Firefox which lets > you enable JavaScript only for specific pages after that.

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: well I have to say that is the most aggregious linux site I've ever seen. At least one pop-up plus that window plus the streaming video... holy crap that's ugly. I use adblocker extension on firefox and I put in *banners.sys-con.com* into ad block and it killed th

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:59:37AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I use adblocker extension on firefox and I put in > *banners.sys-con.com* into ad block and it killed the window, but not > the pop-up, which is annoying. However, the very useful NoScript will block scripts selectively on

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:41:50PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have > to click on "close window" to get rid of it: > http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm > > How are these kind of windows implemented? Java script? And how do I > p

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello once again. Mathias Brodala, 10.01.2007 18:49: > H.S., 10.01.2007 18:41: >> If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have >> to click on "close window" to get rid of it: >> http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm >> >> How are these kind of windows implemented? Java

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. H.S., 10.01.2007 18:41: > If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have > to click on "close window" to get rid of it: > http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm > > How are these kind of windows implemented? Java script? Correct. There is an element created dynam