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I cant believe mozilla allows this or left a loop hole for this

http://searchresults.findsearches.com/tech4.html

I only tested on firefox. When you click close it pops up that ad then goes away without closing. Its a loop you cant leave. Amazing what these crooked sites come up with. I mean this makes people definitely not visit the site.

Hitting enter closes it however.

I tried before I read the rest of your post, frustrating to say the least. Got it closed then read the rest of your post. Gah...

Yep, pretty annoying However, pretty simple usage of Javascript. Stretch your message box's buttons out of view, and presto, you're an #$^%#&. Can they not turn off the default hotkey, so that enter will not hit the invisible OK button? I don't think it is possible for just that reason, but man would that make it even more #$@%^&@-ish.

EDIT: Curiously, it doesn't do that in Chrome. Instead, to try to keep Chrome users on the page, they use the more typical "history flood" method, where they inject their page 3 or more times into your history, and refill it every time the page is refreshed, so you get stuck in a back-button loop if you don't know to actually bring up the history pane and click the page you want to go back to. I think that gets a lot of inexperienced computer users.

but I wonder why they bother updating their page? Who would return? I don't see anyone bookmarking that garbage.

Press enter?

when I press enter on the popup it closes both.

hallsofvallhalla wrote:but I wonder why they bother updating their page? Who would return? I don't see anyone bookmarking that garbage.

I have wondered that myself. Maybe they just make it look updated?