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Tuesday, 6 August 2002
Pop-up Killer

One of the reasons I like Opera is its built-in pop-up (and pop-under) killer. The only windows it opens are the ones I tell it to open. No annoying X10 ads, no aggravating "You are viewing a Tripod member page" windows.

Unfortunately, since it works by preventing the JavaScript window.open() call, this means that regular Web pages which use JavaScript's OnClick method to open a link in a new window (rather than using target="_blank" in the <a href> tag) don't work. In order to follow the links, one has to call up the Quick Preferences menu, select "Accept pop-up windows", click the link, call up Quick Preferences again, and select "Reject pop-up windows" to once again secure oneself from the ravaging hordes of intrusive windows.

You'd think they could define a way to temporarily override the default behavior (like Alt-click) so that the user could indicate to Opera that "I know this link uses JavaScript to open a pop-up window, but this is one that I actually do want to see!"

Well, I need to send in a bug report anyway, so I might as well send a feature request at the same time.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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