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No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0

Posted by michael on from the market-share-apparently-unimportant dept.

jsled writes "C|Net /News.com article details how the forthcoming Netscape 7.0 will not include the nifty pop-up blocking sported in Mozilla, as AOL depends on pop-up ads for annoy^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing to their "valued" customers. The MozillaZine story and comments have a couple of extra, interesting points of detail: how to easily restore the functionality and how some sites get around the popup blocking." Update: 08/15 12:45 GMT by J : In related news, Doug Isenberg asks over on GigaLaw: Are Pop-Up Ads Illegal? The news publishers who say "yes" say that turning off graphics in your web browser should be illegal too.

4 of 505 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I switched to Mozilla.. by ceeam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok - I use "position: fixed" (EG), that does not work. What next?

  2. pop-up blocking is great... by TheLocustNMI · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...but when will we see some sort of blocking feature to remove that lame ^H^H^H^H joke? That's what i want to see :)

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    thelocust[dot]org
  3. Enough already... by stubear · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...annoy^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing...

    Why must the geeks beat this stupid joke into the ground? Say what you're going to say and be done with it.

  4. /. THIS MUST STOP! by lhenriques · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We must find a way of stopping the /. "effect".
    I am tired of trying to follow the links in articles, just to found it down.
    Some guy yesterday sugested to make a cache of the external links in articles. Just 1 or 2 days is enough.
    Cmon slashcoders, is this too difficult for you? Or you actually "like" to DOS fellow sites to death?