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IE To Block Pop-Ups
smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
I'm so sick of hearing about Mozilla. Mozilla didn't invent the pop-up blocker either. I use IE with the Google Toolbar and before that I used Norton's pop-up blocker. I haven't seen a pop-up in two years. So what's the problem? I will agree that no matter what browser you use, if you don't know how to stop pop-ups then you're pretty much useless anyway.
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Anyone that's used Google Toolbar knows that shopping carts aren't broken by intelligent popup blocking, and I'm sure the same holds true for Mozilla and Opera. It's not hard to do.
(How is this informative? I swear to God I hope I get this guy in metamod...)
evil adrian
What's the point? Among others, Proxomitron is free, takes 5 minutes to set up, and is massively configurable for popup/banner/script/etc. blocking.
Does Proxomitron come installed with the OS by default?
That's what I thought.
Oh. I get it. It's Microsoft. Therefore it must really suck. Ha ha ha.
No, it's a simple observation. Microsoft tends to take three or four versions to get something right. Look at Windows: version 3 was the first really usable version. Same with DirectX: versions before DirectX 3 were a royal pain to try to program for. How about Internet Explorer? I've never seen anyone recommend using a version earlier than version 4. Same goes for Outlook Express.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Screw them when they do the right thing, screw them when they do the wrong thing. After all, this is Slashdot !