xero-D-hero
Super Member
There must be some sorta javascript issue here @ AK lately.
Probably from one of the ads or something I dunno for sure,but here what's been happening for me lately.
It started sometime over the last weekend (Apr. 15-17),when all of a sudden I started getting this alert window:
Are you sure you want to leave this webpage?
Message from webpage
false
-> Leave this page
-> Stay on this page
Once that alert pops up there is no other way to navigate away from the page your on w/o selecting "Leave this page".
(no way other than going into the task manager and shutting the browser down the "hard" way)
Either way once you've done so it dumps a ton of $#!t into the temp folder,which is annoying as hell as I like to keep that folder nice & tidy otherwise it tends to drag the whole browser down with that useless cr@p.
Now I've done a TON of stuff to figure this deal out,ran MULTIPLE virus scans with AVG ~ Ad-Aware ~ MSE etc. etc. and there were no threats found. So then I upgraded my browser (was IE 10 now IE 11) and I downloaded all the latest MS security updates yadda yadda yadda yet the behavior persists,so I'm fairly certain it's not any of that stuff,and I dont have a flash player installed either,as those seem to be just one big security clusterf@wk after another,yet none of that ^^^^ took care of the problem.
FYI my desktop OS is win7pro 64bit,but I also tried my laptop with win8 & IE10 and it too did the same thing.
So doing my due dilligence I searched this issue online,and the info for that "Are you sure you want to leave this webpage?" alert is largely all over the place,and while most of that info agrees that said alert is nothing malicious or dangerous,that still does'nt change the annoyance factor even the slightest bit. Anyhow after messing around with my internet settings a bunch I believe I've got the issue narrowed down to a javascript problem,as when I disable java applets & active scripting that alert stops completely,but that inturn affects the functionallity of this site as some of the features must be javascript based,so that really mucks things up as a result of that supposed "fix".
And that move was complicated by the fact that Yahoo mail among other things relies on some javascript features as well,so I had to put this site on my "trusted sites" list and selectively pick & choose the internet settings for this site just to get AK to where it's even partially functional for me while not affecting any other sites that were doing just fine,which was'nt very easy as you still have to still allow this site to use cookies just to log in,yet I cant run this site with javascript enabled,so I had to add this site to always allow cookies as well,so yeah it seems this site has become a bit of a problem child for some ???? reason.
And as soon as I went ahead and logged in here to try things out after finally getting rid of those annoying alerts,it has once again dumped a ton of $#!t into my temp folder,SIGH.
And just to be clear here,this is the ONLY website that I've had this problem on so far,all the other sites I regularly go to seem OK,no other websites have given me any problems what-so-ever.
Honestly,I'm about to just stop coming here to AK if I cant come here w/o getting a ton of crap dumped in my temp file.
Now I gotta go clean that out that temp file again,and maybe I'll just lurk till this issue gets cleared up.
Probably run another round of virus/malware scans just for good measure as well...
I'd be really surprised if nobody else were having these problems,but it may just be they are freaking out and staying away or such?
FWIW
Bret P.
Probably from one of the ads or something I dunno for sure,but here what's been happening for me lately.
It started sometime over the last weekend (Apr. 15-17),when all of a sudden I started getting this alert window:
Are you sure you want to leave this webpage?
Message from webpage
false
-> Leave this page
-> Stay on this page
Once that alert pops up there is no other way to navigate away from the page your on w/o selecting "Leave this page".
(no way other than going into the task manager and shutting the browser down the "hard" way)
Either way once you've done so it dumps a ton of $#!t into the temp folder,which is annoying as hell as I like to keep that folder nice & tidy otherwise it tends to drag the whole browser down with that useless cr@p.
Now I've done a TON of stuff to figure this deal out,ran MULTIPLE virus scans with AVG ~ Ad-Aware ~ MSE etc. etc. and there were no threats found. So then I upgraded my browser (was IE 10 now IE 11) and I downloaded all the latest MS security updates yadda yadda yadda yet the behavior persists,so I'm fairly certain it's not any of that stuff,and I dont have a flash player installed either,as those seem to be just one big security clusterf@wk after another,yet none of that ^^^^ took care of the problem.
FYI my desktop OS is win7pro 64bit,but I also tried my laptop with win8 & IE10 and it too did the same thing.
So doing my due dilligence I searched this issue online,and the info for that "Are you sure you want to leave this webpage?" alert is largely all over the place,and while most of that info agrees that said alert is nothing malicious or dangerous,that still does'nt change the annoyance factor even the slightest bit. Anyhow after messing around with my internet settings a bunch I believe I've got the issue narrowed down to a javascript problem,as when I disable java applets & active scripting that alert stops completely,but that inturn affects the functionallity of this site as some of the features must be javascript based,so that really mucks things up as a result of that supposed "fix".
And that move was complicated by the fact that Yahoo mail among other things relies on some javascript features as well,so I had to put this site on my "trusted sites" list and selectively pick & choose the internet settings for this site just to get AK to where it's even partially functional for me while not affecting any other sites that were doing just fine,which was'nt very easy as you still have to still allow this site to use cookies just to log in,yet I cant run this site with javascript enabled,so I had to add this site to always allow cookies as well,so yeah it seems this site has become a bit of a problem child for some ???? reason.
And as soon as I went ahead and logged in here to try things out after finally getting rid of those annoying alerts,it has once again dumped a ton of $#!t into my temp folder,SIGH.
And just to be clear here,this is the ONLY website that I've had this problem on so far,all the other sites I regularly go to seem OK,no other websites have given me any problems what-so-ever.
Honestly,I'm about to just stop coming here to AK if I cant come here w/o getting a ton of crap dumped in my temp file.
Now I gotta go clean that out that temp file again,and maybe I'll just lurk till this issue gets cleared up.
Probably run another round of virus/malware scans just for good measure as well...
I'd be really surprised if nobody else were having these problems,but it may just be they are freaking out and staying away or such?
FWIW
Bret P.