Web page took over Firefox....NoScript extension

[Young]

Kipton Moravec wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:18 -0400, Schiz0 wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
>>> Made a mistake and hit a link I should not have. It was the first one on
>>> a google search.
>>>
>>> http://www.geocities.com/sammiestuart22/woodenalphabetblocks/embesseling-money.html
>>>
>>> It popped up a message window asking to install "Antivirus 2008" and
>>> would not let me close the Firefox window, change the URL, or cancel the
>>> install window. I could not change to another tab. I could go to another
>>> Firefox window.
>>>
>>> While it looks like a Windows Virus, or something, how come it is able
>>> to take over firefox and keep me from closing it or changing to a new
>>> URL?
>>>
>>> I thought Ubuntu helped prevent this crap from happening.
>>>
>>> I either have to find the process and kill it or reboot.
>>>
>>> Is there a GUI way to stop it? I have 8.04 LTS.
>>>
>>> Kip
>> That's most likely javascript, which runs inside pretty much every
>> browser. Use a firefox extension such as NoScript in order to block
>> javascript on unknown pages.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
>>
> That fixed it. Thanks.
> 

I tried using NoScript before on FF2 for windows.  It was a major pain 
to use then. It seemed to get in the way of almost half of the sites I 
would visit. It is any easier now, or is that just the price of using it?