Dan wrote: > At 9:08 PM -0500 5/7/09, James E. Therrault wrote: > >>Dan wrote: >> >>> At 8:26 PM -0500 5/6/2009, James E. Therrault wrote: >>> >> >> >>Over the past couple of days, I get a dialog (pop up) listing downloads >> >>>>while at various websites. These "downloads" are small but they >>>>virtually hijack the application usually ending up with a "Force Quit." >> >> > >> >>> OS? Safari vers? >>> 10.9 3.0.4 > > > 10.9? No such release yet. > > >> > URLs involved? >> >>Last one was http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/ > > > I've tried that page with Safari 3.0.4, 3.2.1, and 4 beta. It loads > and works for me, even on my 300-MHz Smurf. No javascript errors. > No pop-up anything. Some of the flash ads are a bit, um, > over-animated. No odd downloads. However... that page (before > clicking on any news articles) pumped me full of cookies. 62 of > them! And turning off both plug-ins and javascript makes it load > MUCH faster. Lame code. > > Your "dialog (pop up) listing downloads"... Are you talking about the > downloads window? Or something else? Please show us a screen shot > of this. > > - Dan.
Yes, it is probably the "downloads" window. It just pops up randomly and the downloads are generally tiny like 4K files. This crap just started the other day. I don't know about capturing a screen shot since this activity seems to hijack the whole application. I guess I need to upgrade Safari for starters. JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
