end popups

[Mark Miller]

New small popup stopper from woodies watch. Seems pretty cool. takes up no resourses or very little and all you have is little green or red bar in left corner. Small size 176kb. Just started trying it. Just in case anyone interested.
http://www.endpopups.com/
Mark:D

[dilsburger]

I'm so confuzed, so many popup stoppers, so little time. :D

Thanx Mark will give a try! I like popup stopper but haven't reinstalled since last reformat a few months back been living with em since... Just read a thread where some like Mozilla for this - am downloading now. Opera (free version) does well but it too has shortcomings overall...

[Budfred]

"I'm so confuzed, so many popup stoppers, so little time."

That is because they are so well hated! You'd think that businesses would have given up by now since they probably lose almost as many customers as they gain....

[dilsburger]

Just thought I'd comment on this pgm. So far I think it's does a good job! The widget in the lower left that changes color to let you know it blocked a pop-up is unobtrusive. (to me anyway) You don't even have the widget viewable if you don't want. I somehow take pleasure in knowing one of those little $%@%&*'s were blocked.:D

There is an option to alow popups on certian sites if you choose to do so. I have NOT used it and now I have a curiosity - I'll use TVGuide.com as an example. In the past I ran Pop-Up Stopper and when I went to the tv listings and clicked on a link to view a show's information the pgm apparently blocked any second instances of the browser opening. You have to manually override this with the CTRL key to allow that window to open.

However with this pgm it alows those windows to open without doing any overrride. Yet after bouncing around to numerous other sites it blocked all popups and I never got a single one.

What I'm wondering is how this is achieved in the software? How might they discern the informaitonal popup from the classic ad annoyances we all hate so much? I think this is pretty neat. BTW - I'm running IE6.

[mjc]

It depends on how the call for the new window is handled in the page coding. Most of the more discriminating software will block unrequested pop-ups (the will have labels like onload, onunload, etc). Ones that you have to actually click on a link to get a pop-up are considered "requested" and will be allowed. This is the way Mozilla's blocking works.

[dilsburger]

Got it, thanks!