Eric_Lander - 3:49 am on May 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

Is this heard information or heard fact? Not trying to be smart, LOL, I was just very interested in this comment. -- I just had two people with pop up blockers test this by clicking on a link that was target="_blank" that opened a new full size window... both of them with different programs were able to click the link and have the new window load without their blocker interfering. Scared me there for a minute, LOL.

At a friend's university, some of the machines have an application called _STOPZILLA_ that caused me to sit there for about 5 minutes, wondering why a link here on WebmasterWorld wasn't opening up.

That machine and the others around it all seemed to have the application installed. We were in a library, and I was using machine 300-something. So, I'm assuming this thing was fairly popular.

Later on, I went to a few other sites as well - and had the same problem. You can click a link (intended to be a target="_blank") and nothing happens. I know that it interfered with these types of links, because I owned the sites with the targets set as such.

Another thing that I've gotten from members of a forum I run, are emails saying "I clicked and clicked link X, and nothing happened!" Funny for me since those forums worked fine for the past 3 years. Upon asking, they've all recalled that they've installed or seen applications like this running.

Progressing this back towards the original topic -- does anyone have information on how the introduction of new windows affects usability, conversions, etc.?