> Any thoughts on why the status bar is occasionally showing up? Because it gives the visitor information which some browser vendors thought important enough to suppress the option to turn off the status bar via scripting. A support chart (in German) is here, should be rather obvious: http://de.selfhtml.org/javascript/objekte/window.htm#open You cannot win this battle, the browser chrome is the user's not yours to define. Your above link is even more annoying, as the link will not work without JavaScript and "click here" is not making sense when someone cannot see your page but only hear it. Why don't you just use a fixed size layout and center it in the browser? Same effect, less hassle. -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/