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Freshly installed XP-SP2 with all latest updates, Defender, ErrorSafe, SpywareDoctor, MSfirewall and NortonAV. 11 Mbps cable. Never any problem with pop-ups, but when I try to post an answer to a sertain www newspaperblog my IE 6.0 sometimes go totally crazy. The website starts to multiply in a new window so fast I cannot stop it, and within seconds I can get more than a hundred open and similar windows. The built-in popup-stopper in IE cannot handle it, and the only way to stop this hickup is to hard-shutdown IE (CtrlAltDel - Prossesses - IE shutdown). And fast. Can a scriptfault in the website really do this, or what? And more: Is this the right forum?

I am a mind-over-matter-guy, and scan against whatever regularly, with the safetybelt on in the background. This multiplying do not look any good at all, so I have not had the nerve to see how many multiple windows my mashine really can handle before it gets out oxygen. If there ever was a rapid web-echo or mutateing something, this is it. Scary stuff ...

If any misspelling: English is not my native tongue...

-Rune-

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Websites can open new instances of browser windows, and if that new instance immediately opens another one, etc, the effect what you describe will happen. Sometimes this is done intentionally (malicious), e.g. by adult websites, for whatever reason. Of course it can also be a bug, like probably in your case.

Can you provide us with a link, so someone can test it, e.g. with another browser, or find a setting for IE that will prevent this from happening.

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Can you provide us with a link, so someone can test it, e.g. with another browser, or find a setting for IE that will prevent this from happening.

Thanks for the reply.

This is the site, provided via one of Norways biggest newspapers: http://www.blogging.no/blog.php/ragmanar/post/13354

Maybe I could turn off "open new prosess in a new window", but I have forgot where to change that parameter\option.

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Your probably correct. To fix that go into your internet explorer settings and disable anything having to do with javascript/scripting. See if that helps. That form accepts html code and I'm pretty sure javascript. I typed in a bunch of basic tags in for html/javascript and bbcode and the bbcode was the only one to not work. It also seems to crash Iexplorer on the last page of the blog where I posted, but not firefox. People used to use a newpage loop like what your saying in html chatrooms till moderators got smart and disabled certain tags.

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