Annoying popping up of IE

Bluto

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Oct 9, 1999
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At work I like to use my ISP's (Earthlink) webmail ap to check my home email.

Fine and good.....

Whenever there is any kind of screen change or refresh, there is a bit of a delay upon it actually doing anything. So I minimize the screen and go back to doing whatever I was doing before.

Problem......once the page loads it restores the screen to being on top of the desktop. It's a crap-shoot as to when this happens. So while I'm typing away this annoying screen pops up and my typing then enacts whatever on that page.

I've written EL about this, sent message after message nicely letting then know about this problem, but nothing gets done......what do they care right?

So......

....is there a registry hack, or IE setting I can use to defeat this annoying feature? None of my other web pages do this. I believe it's their (bad) idea of a convenience, but for me it's a wicked pain.

This does this in IE 5 and IE 6. It does it on NT and WIn 98 if that helps.

Thanks.....

:)
 

MrChad

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Aug 22, 2001
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Earthlink's webmail page likely uses some JavaScript to call window.focus() when the page has finished loading. AFAIK there's nothing you can do to prevent this other than disable JavaScript, which could break other sites you visit. Check the source code of the webmail page -- look for <body onload="window.focus()"> -- to confirm this is the issue.
 

Bluto

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Oct 9, 1999
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Hi MrChad....

Thanks.....

I didn't think there was a fix I could get at myself, but I hoped.

I didn't find the string exactly as you typed it, but here's (in part) what I'm guessing is the equivalent:

function loadFocus() {
window.focus();
}

I guess I'm stuck using this or just find another web method to check my email.