web-annoyances

Abuse of Adobe Flash

Lots of websites in the wild seem to abuse their visitors by automatically starting flash based advertisements / trailers and the like. What are the defenses modern browsers offer, for example, Disallow automatic playing for a specific URL / site/ domain Disallow speaker use [flash does not allow this to be configured and I'm especial...

Annoying Blank pop-up window go away

Hi All, Sorry about the wording for my question title. I have a basic HTML anchor tag that when clicked it is suppose to bring up a dialog box to download a file from a differnt website. I am using an attribute of target="_blank" so that when my hyperlink is clicked, I don't navigate away from my main window. This is all the easy part...