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Him Her

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That irritating moment when you stumble over summat that opens a new tab in your browser and the thing just won't go away. A bit bad coding, an exploit or just clicked on the wrong, erm, nature video ;)

Anyway, it's probably in Javascript as it's so easy to gain access to the machine this way. So, how to get rid of it?

Chrome has a useful little tool called Task Manager (Tools, Task Manager or Shift-Esc) and you can select the tab process and kill it. If selecting highlights more than one tab process try temporarily disabling Java support (Settings, Show Advanced Settings, Content Settings, select Do not allow any site to run JavaScript).

You can temporarily disable JavaScript in Firefox via Preferences, Content and uncheck Enable JavaScript.

Obviously, I was doing some genuine research when I discovered this! The fact she had the most amazing, erm, personalities was purely coincidental ;)
 
You can also get to the task manager by right-clicking in the dead area just above the tabs. Found that by accident too!
 
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