On 2008-07-22, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> "When you click on the Web thingy, why do you only get one window?
>> When I click mine I get seventy, with offers for wonderful products."
>
> Yesterday, I went here:
>
> http://www.boozoobajou.com/
>
> and Iceweasel 3 complained about not understanding the protocol. X
No such luck...
I just got the one window. Of course I have scripts off by default
so that could have been part of it. I put this site on my whitelist
and it still didn't spawn 70 other windows (or tabs). Although I still
had the popup blocking on. Then there's the ad blocker too.
All it takes is one obnoxious site and you end up in permanent
lockdown. It's not too bad though. Enabling javascript is a minor
nuissance and I am sure that it would be "too much" for other people.
Although it works out in the end.
Sandbox your web browser... be brutal about it.
> Windows went wild spawning new instances of iceweasel (firefox-bin).
> It finally froze up, and I had to use Alt-SysRq-r to grab control of the
> keyboard.
>
> I killed all the instances from a virtual console window, but X was
> still fah-rozen.
>
> I then tried lynx and links, and they both would go to background.
>
> Today, lynx is acting fine. I used wget to get some of the docs from
> that site, and having seen anything that looks like it could cause any
> problems.
>
> I'll try again with popups blocked, at a more convenient time.
>
>> "I think your fan's broken."
>
> You can make the fan turn on quite easily with the gkrellmi8k plugin
><grin>. I uninstalled that thing and just settled for the Sensors
> output.
>
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