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Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior



On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:21:48PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Quoth Rick Pasotto, 
> > I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5.
> > What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows
> > the correct address but the actual page seems to come from somewhere
> > random in the cache. Today I tried to access www.linuxworld.com and got
> > a 'This Page is Under Construction' page. Setting the proxy to 'direct
> > internet connection' solved the problem.
> 
> Check out the following for some workarounds
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38488
> 
> Note that this frequently breaks, and un-breaks, and re-breaks again in
> the nightlies.
> 
> While junkbuster is still useful for some things (like blocking the
> banners on slashdot without blocking all the other graphics), the "Block
> images from this server", and Mozilla's cookie control make it a lot
> less essential than it used to be. These days I have junkbuster's cookie
> control turned off most of the time and just use Mozilla's cookie
> functions.

Just found the Junkbuster bug and changing mozilla to use http 1.0 fix
the problem.  I prefer JunkEX which is a patch to Junkbuster, it can
filter out rubbish like popup windows, resize and a lot more.

Why JunkEX is not in the debian packages?



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