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FireFox and "Stop Script" Nuisance
Hi,
I use FireFox V2.0.0.17 on my Win98se computers. I have Java Script enabled, but "Java" unchecked. I did not change, via "Advance", the default "Java Script Settings". "Move or resize exiting Window" and "Disable or replace content..." are enabled (default). NUISANCE: When I visit sites, often a pop up, "Stop Script" window appears. I have to click on the button in order to continue a web page download. The "Help" documents does not provide any information on how I can automatically "stop script". Do you know of a way I can automatically, "Stop Script", or must I enable (if that will work?) all the Java Script settings to avoid this problem? Thank You in Advance, John PS, Remove "ine" from my email address |
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98 Guy wrote in :
snip The default behavior of Noscript is that it prevents javascript from running for ALL websites you visit, unless you specifically add the site to a "white-list". Yes-script is the complete opposite. It's default behavior is to allow javascript on all websites unless you add specific sites to a "black-list". I placed 4 options on my Opera toolbar: images blocker, flash blocker, javascript on/off, and "show as IE/FF/Opera". Seems simpler, doesn't it? |
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thanatoid wrote in
: I don't want to be an annoying pest, but like I said in my other post, nPop and Xnews do it faster and better, and no "stop script" crap etc. And there are quite a few other options as well. I use nPOP too. I think email is far too important to be held to ransom by the dubious performance of large systems. Imagine having a phone attached to a TV, where the TV suppressed phone use while adverts were showing, or when the news was on. Doing emails with a browser is like that. If you look at what it actually IS, you'll see that SMTP and POP3 (for sending and receiving respectively) are protocols with about as much to do with the WWW as a telephone landline has to do with mass broadcasting. The fact that access appears at the same location for the end user these days is encouraging illusions that should be abandoned to allow better control of things you need. Keep them as separate as you can manage, so each system works as you need. Ideally email should work well enough to be used as a means to make emergency calls if the phone goes down. There's an nPOPuk variant that does a bit more. I prefer the original but the variant does email forwarding and a few other things extra. Putting programs on their own partition is something I do too. Those that allow it are usually more selfcontained, will usually run on W98 or WXP (so long as they will run on W98 at all), and they also tend to limit their dependencies so that they are more indepedent of each other, and far less likely to break (or break each other). |
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: thanatoid wrote in : I don't want to be an annoying pest, but like I said in my other post, nPop and Xnews do it faster and better, and no "stop script" crap etc. And there are quite a few other options as well. I use nPOP too. I think email is far too important to be held to ransom by the dubious performance of large systems. Imagine having a phone attached to a TV, where the TV suppressed phone use while adverts were showing, or when the news was on. Doing emails with a browser is like that. If you look at what it actually IS, you'll see that SMTP and POP3 (for sending and receiving respectively) are protocols with about as much to do with the WWW as a telephone landline has to do with mass broadcasting. The fact that access appears at the same location for the end user these days is encouraging illusions that should be abandoned to allow better control of things you need. Keep them as separate as you can manage, so each system works as you need. Ideally email should work well enough to be used as a means to make emergency calls if the phone goes down. I could NOT have said it as well. Can I save this bit to quote when the subject comes up in some discussion with the clueless (with full credit given)? There's an nPOPuk variant that does a bit more. I prefer the original but the variant does email forwarding and a few other things extra. Yes, various multiple folder options etc. I also prefer the original, and manage the email content manually before archiving it. |
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thanatoid wrote in
: I could NOT have said it as well. Can I save this bit to quote when the subject comes up in some discussion with the clueless (with full credit given)? Feel free. Just bear in mind that someone will point out that if the phone goes down, so does email, if you have ADSL. |
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: thanatoid wrote in : I could NOT have said it as well. Can I save this bit to quote when the subject comes up in some discussion with the clueless (with full credit given)? Feel free. Just bear in mind that someone will point out that if the phone goes down, so does email, if you have ADSL. Thanks. :-) I live in a 3rd world country where the electricity goes out at least 5 times a week. The record so far is 20 hours, although it is usually between 30 seconds and 2 hrs. After a few years of this you hardly even notice. But, the *phone* line has NEVER died ONCE since I have lived here. OTOH, when I lived in Vancouver, the electricity went out /once/ in about 11 years (the phone line never died either). (Don't ask me where I live now, because I like to maintain my illusion of some privacy/'nonymity...) |
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Lostgallifreyan writes: [] Putting programs on their own partition is something I do too. Those that allow it are usually more selfcontained, will usually run on W98 or WXP (so long as they will run on W98 at all), and they also tend to limit their dependencies so that they are more indepedent of each other, and far less likely to break (or break each other). How many partitions do you have? And are they all small? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Gentlemen, you can't fight in he this is the war room!" (Dr. Strangelove) |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: In message , Lostgallifreyan writes: [] Putting programs on their own partition is something I do too. Those that allow it are usually more selfcontained, will usually run on W98 or WXP (so long as they will run on W98 at all), and they also tend to limit their dependencies so that they are more indepedent of each other, and far less likely to break (or break each other). How many partitions do you have? And are they all small? Like this: 2GB C: (minus space for a 15MB primary for DOS bootable, with network, as emergency stash, rarely used, given a letter by W98 that doesn't interfere with the other primaries, it's usually last in the list.), then 1GB D: as first primary on second disk, for backup images, Ghost, GDISK, etc, and any batch files, reg files, for updates being used and tested before being merged to the main image some time when I'm sure to keep them. Then the first disk's extended DOS slice gets two 1GB logicals, E: and F:, for main programs, and less used programs, respectively, then a 4GB G: that gets a directory frequently updated manually to mirror D: so the backup is always current, on a separate disk. The OS install files also live in a dir in the root of G: along with stuff to let me examine or install another OS if I have to. G: also contains program install archives that justified any effort to categorise them for easy finding. The rest of the disk is H: which is mainly (lots of) audio files, but with enough extra space to juggle large stuff between disks when space is short. The rest of the second disk is extended slice, as two large partitions whose sizes are close to 'golden mean' ratio, smaller one first. The bigger one holds the Lumber Room, a huge directory where I chuck anything in without having to worry about sorting. It also mirrors a lot of what's on drive G: as well as all of E: and F:, so pretty much everything important is recoverable from one disk if the other dies. There's a removable frame holding that second disk so it's easy to migrate the entire system to another machine (I have one with a similar frame, so most of this data is double-backed there too, as well as offline). The main machine has a second frame, for a third disk, for movies and such, on a big disk that's all extended DOS, no primaries to screw up the drive letter order. There may be better ways, but that's how I ended up because nothing demanded that I make changes ince that scheme developed. It hasn't changed much since I had that 6.4 GB Quantum Fireball. The data slices just got bigger, because I hated burning CD's. |
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