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Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008Strange happenings on New York Times site (nyt.com) in Safari
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? In article <0c6d4ed4-e09e-4f95-88e6-ac6d849a5c01@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, > 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 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > recall leaving anything but nyt.com on the screen. I'm running a newer > iMac with 10.4.9, all updates current. Any thoughts? Just one thought: I am so glad I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus and never have to see that sort of nonsense! : ) <http://adblockplus.org/en/>  SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > In article > <0c6d4ed4-e09e-4f95-88e6-ac6d849a5...@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > JR How do you know it's an ad? On my work computer, I don't have this problem, and nyt.com never serves me up ads. Besides, this isn't happening when I like though to a sub-page; it happens while I'm not even at my computer and the nyt.com homepage is up. In article <fa4bf13d-6c92-4f43-b0f5-bbd1d88d05c2@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, > > In article > > <0c6d4ed4-e09e-4f95-88e6-ac6d849a5...@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > How do you know it's an ad? I don't know either way, but I suspect it is related to ads, because web sites like that often try to open windows behind the current window to display ads. It's very common. SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > 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 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > 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? Signature*--------------------------------------------------------* | ^Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool^ | | Heath Raftery, HRSoftWorks _\|/_ | *______________________________________m_('.')_m_________* > bik1...@hotmail.com wrote: > > For many months now, when I leave Safari on nyt.com, I will come back [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 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. -- Dave Fritzinger Honolulu, HI |
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