[WEB4LIB] Netscape problem

[Jill Hobgood]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Andrew Mutch wrote:

> Here's a suggestion I received....you might want to check this:
> 
> "This problem is caused by poorly written Javascript. The Geocities
> popup that they phased out earlier this year was the biggest offender.
> It kept crashing my browser repeatedly, so that I couldn't click on
> any links. You had to REBOOT the computer to fix this problem. From my
> observations, it seemed like the Javascript crashed if you tried to
> close the pop-up ad AS SOON AS it materialized. In an obscene way, it
> forced anybody using a Geocities site to keep the pop-up window open
> to avoid the frozen link problem.


Yes!  I'll certainly agree that the Geocities popups were the
worst offenders, and the problem occurs much less frequently
for me, as well, since they changed that.  True, too, that 
keeping that #$@*# popup open also helped.

Jill

Jill Hobgood
Reference/ILL Librarian
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 
jhobgood at saintmarys.edu