Some browser observations (2)

[Net Llama!]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> Second item worth bringing up. I was running konqueror (redhat 7.1) as a
> remote application on my wife's new linux box (an old retread win98 box),
> and all was well. I was reading the NYTimes, which is free but full of popup
> ads. I finally started rejecting cookies from those popup people. Suddenly,
> I started getting plugin errors galore from konqueror, which made it almost
> unusable. I restarted konqueror, with the same problem. So, I reset the
> cookie policy to accept those cookies again, and the problem went away.
> 
> This seems like a bug in konqueror or a clever way for the NYTimes to
> avoid parasites like me. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

I read the NYT website all the time with Mozilla.  My cookie preference 
is set to
allow only cookies originating from the site, and i don't have any problems.

I've only encountered a 1-time popup at the NYT site, and it occurs on 
the front
page.



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