Sunday, June 16, 2002

Bleh -- 4:39 pm CST, Update by The Master

Went to lyrics.com today to check out some System of a Down lyrics, and re-discovered the evil of javascript ads. I got hit with a bunch of (expletive) junk from www.newtopsites.com that ended up opening windows until my machine went right to it's knees. However, a quick add of their DNS names to my hosts file, with an address of 127.0.0.1 fixed their little red wagons. If you like your machine dying under the assault of a poorly designed ad server, go ahead and visit lyrics.com. Otherwise, I'd say go someplace else. Grrrrr...

Hmmm, maybe it IS time to switch to Mozilla. I believe it's got stuff built in to fix this kind of ****.

J.t.Qbe comments: Oh yeah, it's really a kick to turn off popup ads. Give Mozilla a try!

A.T. Hun comments: In Mozilla's menus, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Scripts & Windows and uncheck "Open unrequested windows." Works like a charm. I assume it would be a similar option for Netscape 7.x. I had forgotten how much Mozilla was saving me from until I tried to use IE for a week or so on my folks' computer.

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