I'm working on a page which displays the status of a server application. The page has a link for the user to login. When the link is clicked a popup window opens for the user to enter their username/password and when they submit the page launches the application, saves the login infor to a cookie and closes the window. Ok, that is all well and good. But,... There are two different issues - one IE and one FF. I can work around one at a time, but can't find a way to work around both at the same time. With FF the browser will throw up a dialog asking if I want to allow it to launch an external application. If my JS attempts to close the login window before the user accepts, the application will not launch. I tried to work around this by having the login window call a JS function in the parent window to launch the application before closing itself. This works fine in FF, but IE sees the function in the parent window trying to launch the application as a pop-up. And, the option to allow pop-ups would require the ser to restart the login process. I hope this all makes sense. Please ask if anything isn't clear. Anyone have any suggestions? Michael J