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What do you hate when browsing a site? Background music? bright colors? What?

There are a few things I hate:

• Text that is hard to read because of not enough contrast with the background (dark text on dark background or pale text on pale background). Web sites are supposed to be there to provide information, and if I can't read easily what's written, then what's the use of writing it.
• Background music, sound or whatever. I expect sound only when I ask for it! On the Internet, nothing drives me crazier than an unexpected sound, especially if the previous thing I heard was a bad quality video on YouTube: then chances are the volume of my speaker is higher than normal and all I can think of is "I have to shut this thing down RIGHT NOW"!
• When I click on a link and it opens my browser a second time. I hate having too many programs in my task bar, therefore I use tabs in my browser, and I'd much rather just click on a link with the wheel of my mouse to open a new tab automatically (which I do all the time, BTW for those without a third button, you can right-click on a link to see a menu) than to end up with a second browser window that I haven't asked for.
• Pages where there are too many different fonts and colors, or the icons are too big, things like that. Somebody I know made a forum like that, putting this and that in bold, yellow, red, or bigger than the rest, as if to make sure I didn't miss anything. It had the opposite effect: so many things sticked out that none of them grabbed my attention, and it became very hard to get a good idea of what was really new or important. So much that it even diminished the fun I had to visit it.

pop up's!!
*kicks the pop up's in the balls*

Background music and popups.

Also JavaScript that prevents me right-clicking and opening links in new windows. It's supposed to stop people saving images, but you can get the links from the html source so it's totally ineffective.

"DrFrag" wrote:Also JavaScript that prevents me right-clicking and opening links in new windows. It's supposed to stop people saving images, but you can get the links from the html source so it's totally ineffective.

Oh, I concur! :d oh: I'm also one who looks for the the source! :d evil:

Windows that put themselves on the foreground when they are finished loading. It was a constant nuisance at the (old) times when I was using Netscape and a 56K modem: Netscape had a "feature" that automatically put a window on the foreground when the page was finished loading. No option was available to prevent this. Almost ran crazy with this as even minimized windows suddenly popped up The only alternative I had was to use Internet Explorer, which had the even worse habit to crash here and there with no good reason, taking the whole system with it in its one-way trip to hell Netscape crashed too of course, but at least I could start it again without rebooting the whole system
Oh yes, and I hate popups too for obvious reasons

Why does a window sometime minmize when done loading? It's happen to me and I hate it. I would have to right click on it to maximize it.

That never happened to me. It must be annoying indeed!

I agree with Sparx. I really hate pop ups. They are the most annoying thing on the web.

I use Firefox and rarely get them anymore.