[WEB4LIB] Re: Popups

Thomas Dowling tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Wed Jul 24 07:58:09 EDT 2002


At 04:26 PM 7/23/2002 -0700, Daniel Messer wrote:
>... Or, my personal
>favourite is to use Mozilla 1.0. It has an option that you can set to not
>launch any pop ups which were not specifically requested by a mouse click.
>Very nice. :)

Until you run Netscape 7.0PR1, which not only doesn't have this option, but 
silently resets it in Mozilla.  AOLTW has to keep the popup ad revenues 
flowing, I guess.

Opera also has an option to disable popups, though its option also disables 
creating new windows through link targets.


Thomas Dowling
Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu




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