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This, in itself, I find pretty cool. Even though everybody and their mother is using pop-up blockers as an added-value feature.
However, where there is a bug, there is a workaround. I've been happy with the G toolbar as my pop-up blocker but quite recently I've seen some pop-up's getting around it. They pop up quite happily and always have a name like "blockersafe" or something simillar. Who's going to win this one?
But then again, there are alot of waarez sites too.
Soon they'll come pre-installed when you buy a loaf of bread
does this mean I won't be able to put it in the toaster? ;)
Very good one!
I can smell that from here! Err.. no, it's my GF trying to cook again.
However the trend lately is to implement fake popups in DHTML: basically layers of HTML -within- a webpage that look and behave like popups but they are not really windows and their instances aren't initiated with Javascript window methods, so Mozilla can not block them [yet]. I have very short patience for the sites that do it.
There's only one site I still use IE on, and that's because a flaw in IE (or the site, notsure which) allows me to gaff it for a lot of free points on a certain game.
Overall, I'd have to say, go with a browser with built-in blocking. IE is flaky enough as it is, start adding third-party extensions to it, and it tends to get worse.
does this mean I won't be able to put it in the toaster
Surely you will still be able to put it in the toaster, it will stop it from popping-up when it's done.
Surely you will still be able to put it in the toaster, it will stop it from popping-up when it's done.
I don't want to incinerate my kitchen.
"I don't want to incinerate my kitchen."
Well, why not?
I think that unless XML is destroyed, and HTML is severely edited, and every browser starts discluding the ability of Javascript, or new window HTML and are programmed completely flawless, THEN popups will become destroyed. But then a virus that automatically makes them able to be shown will come around.
