[TriLUG] Opera oddity addendums
Brian Henning
brian at strutmasters.com
Wed Mar 23 15:10:00 EST 2005
Woops, forgot a couple of details:
o Definitely tied to the page I want to view---close the page, it stops.
o Seems to be linked to advertisements. Refresh the page a few times
(so different ads load) and it stops.
Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Every now and then, while perusing legitimately-maintained sites (such
> as theregister.co.uk, or dansdata.com, as opposed to sketchy pr0n or
> war3z sorts of sites), Opera will spawn a blank page and pop up the
> following error message:
>
> The address type is unknown or unsupported
> fscommand:allowscale
>
> "fscommand"?? What is that? It's clearly caused by these web pages
> (I've noticed it specifically at theregister and dansdata, and it is
> sporadic). It's a pain, because as long as the "source" page is
> displayed, these blank pages continue to spawn every few seconds (for
> example, as I've typed this message, so far I have dismissed about 20 of
> these messages [and closed their related blank pages]).
>
> My first guess would be some sort of scripting incompatability, but I
> would love to know more about it (and how to prevent it without fully
> disabling all client-side scripting).
>
> Thanks tons,
> ~Brian
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