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Netscape 4.x Full Screen Ads

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by msteffan 1 view

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We use Netscape as our main browser - and email client - Starting last week, when you open Netscape Messenger - the ad/news that normally opens in the lower preview window now opens in a seperate full screen page. This is most likely NOT a setting on the PC as it started happening all at once - and on several hundred machines the same day. If the preview window is closed the ad/news page does not load - however if it is open, it opens in a seperate window - Not a very big problem, but those of you in Desktop Support will understand that ANY extra click a user has to do that takes them away from their Solitare playing duties makes them call for support. Has anyone else seen this issue with Netscape (4.x, maybe 6.x too)?

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by thechas

Well, you can try several things.

Switch to a different program for your e-mail.
Eudura is one I see mentioned a lot.

At this time, I would hold off on Mozilla, but it may be the way to go once they reach a release.

Install a pop-up stopper program.

Install Netscape add-free.
http://www.carpe-media.de/
This program is suppossed to black Netscape mail adds.

As a side note, there is no utility in netscape 6.2 to import your Netscape 4.X mail files.
Mozilla does hava the abilityto import 4.X mail.

Chas

by msteffan

The problem solved itself - all at once the problem disappeared on every machine that we had this problem with - it was apparently in the way netsape was coding their web-ad for a few days...

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