apps freezing because of popups

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yawnmoth

Occasionally, I'll be in FireFox and it'll, for all essential purposes,
freeze, because of what amounts to a javascript alert.

Ocasionally, it'll be because the popup just keeps on popping up (eg.
while (1) alert('whatever')), but sometimes it'll be because you can't
go to any window until you've clicked okay in the new window. This, in
and of itself, wouldn't be a problem if the new window always appeared
in front of all the other windows, but sometimes, it doesn't. I don't
know - maybe I just sometimes click on the main window and the new
window then goes behind it, and the main window can never be minimized
until the old window has been shrunk.

Regardless of how it happens, it's annoyng and usually results in my
having to quit the program by killing the entire process. Which is
something I'd usually prefer not to do.

Any ideas as to how I could work around this?
 
yawnmoth said:
Occasionally, I'll be in FireFox and it'll, for all essential purposes,
freeze, because of what amounts to a javascript alert.

Ocasionally, it'll be because the popup just keeps on popping up (eg.
while (1) alert('whatever')), but sometimes it'll be because you can't
go to any window until you've clicked okay in the new window. This, in
and of itself, wouldn't be a problem if the new window always appeared
in front of all the other windows, but sometimes, it doesn't. I don't
know - maybe I just sometimes click on the main window and the new
window then goes behind it, and the main window can never be minimized
until the old window has been shrunk.

Regardless of how it happens, it's annoyng and usually results in my
having to quit the program by killing the entire process. Which is
something I'd usually prefer not to do.
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What does the popup say? Without knowing that, I can't give you focused
help.

In the meantime, make sure your computer is completely virus/malware-free:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke
 
Malke said:
What does the popup say? Without knowing that, I can't give you focused
help.
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This particular popup was some Java popup saying that it required a
username password to access a URL (I was sorta testing an applet I had
written). Unfortunately, the popup appeared behind the browser and the
browser wouldn't let me do anything until I had hit the "ok" button (or
whatever it required - I never actually saw the popup; just its
description), which I couldn't do.

It seems like the solution to this, though, would be similar to the
solution to the "while (1) alert('whatever')" example I previously
gave. Or maybe not?
 
yawnmoth said:
This particular popup was some Java popup saying that it required a
username password to access a URL (I was sorta testing an applet I had
written). Unfortunately, the popup appeared behind the browser and the
browser wouldn't let me do anything until I had hit the "ok" button (or
whatever it required - I never actually saw the popup; just its
description), which I couldn't do.

It seems like the solution to this, though, would be similar to the
solution to the "while (1) alert('whatever')" example I previously
gave. Or maybe not?
Click to expand...

From what I can gather from your posts (I'm not a programmer), this is not a
Windows issue. This sounds like 1) a programming issue; 2) a Java issue; 3)
a Firefox issue; 4) all of the above.

MS carries newsgroups for programmers; I would check Sun's website for
resources for Java programmers (or just Google for that). Firefox has very
active user forums. Here's a list of all the MS newsgroups:

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

Good luck,

Malke
 
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