No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0

Posted by michael on Wednesday August 14, 2002 @05:36PM 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.

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Already.... by sconeu · 2002-08-14 17:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Five comments and its /.'ed!

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The web site by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-14 17:45 · Score: -1, Redundant

you are trying to access is experiencing an extremely high volume of traffic.

I think we need to put in for a new http error code:
911 - Slashdotted