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From: Heath Raftery on 4 May 2008 23:55
bik1933(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> For many months now, when I leave Safari on nyt.com, I will come back
> later and find several (from a few to dozens) of new windows open, all
> blank, with no content. The URL in each will be something like
> http://graphicx8.nytimes.com/feedroom/nytc3. Each will have a slightly
> different URL, but all following this pattern. nyt.com refreshes
> itself automatically, like so many news sites; in this case, I seem to
> be getting some kind of glitchy new window. Now, this doesn't happen
> all the time. Sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and there will be
> no extra screens, just the up-to-the-minute Times news. Other times
> I'll have dozens. nyt.com is my homepage, not surprisingly, and it's
> often where I leave Safari at night. I e-mailed The Times about it and
> they suggested emptying the Safari cache, but that hasn't helped.
> Their tech contact told me he'd never heard of this particular
> problem. I've talked to my ISP (ATT Yahoo), but they're not familiar
> with it. I haven't seen this happen on any other site, but I can't
> recall leaving anything but nyt.com on the screen. I'm running a newer
> iMac with 10.4.9, all updates current. Any thoughts?

It's not just because the "Disable Pop-Up windows" option in the
Safari menu has been toggled?

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From: Dave Fritzinger on 5 May 2008 15:47
On May 4, 5:55 pm, Heath Raftery <hraft...(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
> bik1...(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> > For many months now, when I leave Safari on nyt.com, I will come back
> > later and find several (from a few to dozens) of new windows open, all
> > blank, with no content. The URL in each will be something like
> >http://graphicx8.nytimes.com/feedroom/nytc3. Each will have a slightly
> > different URL, but all following this pattern. nyt.com refreshes
> > itself automatically, like so many news sites; in this case, I seem to
> > be getting some kind of glitchy new window. Now, this doesn't happen
> > all the time. Sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and there will be
> > no extra screens, just the up-to-the-minute Times news. Other times
> > I'll have dozens. nyt.com is my homepage, not surprisingly, and it's
> > often where I leave Safari at night. I e-mailed The Times about it and
> > they suggested emptying the Safari cache, but that hasn't helped.
> > Their tech contact told me he'd never heard of this particular
> > problem. I've talked to my ISP (ATT Yahoo), but they're not familiar
> > with it. I haven't seen this happen on any other site, but I can't
> > recall leaving anything but nyt.com on the screen. I'm running a newer
> > iMac with 10.4.9, all updates current. Any thoughts?
>
> It's not just because the "Disable Pop-Up windows" option in the
> Safari menu has been toggled?
>
While I haven't seen that sort of behavior on the NYT website, I see
it regularly on the Boston Globe (boston.com/news/globe) website. And,
yes, that is with "Block Pop-up Windows" turned on.
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Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI
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