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Or rathar it forces all new windows to open in the current window.
Yeah, even with that option enabled, these damn popups keep opening in new windows. Yes, in all the browsers I've tried.
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They could totally disable the ability for you to get popups but it would break stuff. For example you still want the ability to press a button and have a new window appear.
Right. Aware of that. My question is, why is it so absurdly difficult for the people who wrote the code to capture that button press, and the people who wrote the code to open that new window, to talk to each other?
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Even if you can't see any flash items on the page, lots of websites are using flash to generate popups because it's not usually blocked by browsers.
I didn't think Flash could cause the web browser to spawn a new window. I though it could just make a flash animation float above the current window. Which I've seen plenty of, but that's not the specific problem I'm complaining about.
If what you say is true, I'd love to find a browser or a plug-in that toggled the enable and disable of flash via a toolbar button.
Does anyone know if what Rob is saying is correct? Can flash actually spawn a new IE or Firefox window? Or can it only make flash animations float over the current web page?
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Have you tried something like this?
Yes, I will most likely resort to third-party blocking utilities soon. In the past I have done this, but then most web browsers started implementing decent pop up blocking and I no longer needed to. Now suddenly it seems the advertisers have gotten more clever and we're back to square one. But in any case, the point of this thread was more along the lines of a general theoretical question about web programming and browser behavior. Not "how do I block popups", but rather "why is it so hard for them to block popups from within the web browser's own code?"
You'd think the people who WROTE the web browser could have some influence over its own behavior, you know?
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