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This simple test aimed at exposing the weakness of dedicated external popup blockers, including those highly famed sharewares
The test page contains 5 types of popups created by 5 different JS methods. It only demonstrates popups triggered by onload handler but the same popups can also be triggered by other event handlers like onmouseover or onunload. Chances are if your blocker can/cannot block these popups it probably can/cannot block popups triggered by other handlers.
The test doesn’t contain those floating/sticky/dropin ads which are in fact document layers which cannot be conveniently removed without removing non-ad contents as well.
Probably you can configure your blocker to block these popups with blacklists but another challenge is whether your blocker is intelligent enough to unblock the useful popups solicited by each of the 5 buttons in the test page, even with the help of a white list.
Im running MyIE2 and I saw all 5 popups (Solicited) and also a couple UNSOLICITED (But thankfullky,i dont see them used anyway,so……)
I only got 2 Unsolicited and I’m running Avant Browser (http://www.avantbrowser.com)
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Gudnyi´m using Mozilla Firefox and I got ZERO popup! GO MOZILLA!! 😀
i’m with you on this one… firefox lets nothing through, and that’s the way I like it
I got the 5 that were supposed to appear. Though, I kept getting a script error. Did this error have something to do with the test? Anyone else getting it?
This is why I love Opera. Opera has a built-in pop-up blocker with four options.
1. Block all pop-ups
2. Block unwanted pop-ups
3. Open all pop-ups in the background
4. Open all pop-upsOption 2 only opens a pop-up if it is triggered by something you did (and not something the webpage did). For example, if I go to the page I get no pop-ups at all when it loads. If I click button 1 the pop-up opens normally, since I requested it myself.
As for buttons 2, 3, 4 and 5… Opera does not approve those methods of showing pop-ups at all, so there isn’t any chance that I ever see those pop-ups. 🙂
I like this pop-up tester better 🙂
Quote:quote:Originally posted by RigorMortisI like this pop-up tester better 🙂
This test is good too, Although, the timed popup wasn’t blocked in firefox. 😮
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Originally posted by ladie_vennomThis test is good too, Although, the timed popup wasn’t blocked in firefox.
My Firefox blocked all the popups at http://www.popuptest.com 😀
(I´m using Version 0.9.2)edit: Firefox didn´t block the less common Drop down Popup and the so called Sticky popup 😮 Bur hey, 11 out of 13 isin´t too bad. :rolleyes:
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