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has introduced uncontrollable Super-popups that will not go away untill they have run their course. The popup blocker does not touch them. They seem to be Flash routines - any ideas for squashing them, short of un-installing Flash?
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I viewed the link with both Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.5b, with not a single, solitary, popup?
In your Preferences | Privacy and Security Settings | Advanced
Have you double checked to see whether or not you have added this site (inadvertently) to the "Allowed sites" list? Or perhaps your "Block unrequested popup windows" setting wasn't retained?
I guess no one seems to listen to me when I say that I have Norton Personal Firewall that has an ad blocker--I have had absolutely no pop up ads since I started using it.When I pull up the report it will show the ads blocked today and you can find the url that was blocked. Plus you get the benefit of the security.
Thank for the Telegraph link. I used to read, faithfully, the London Times.
If anything Flash reoccurs, you can have a wonderful weapon, which can be used for other purposes. I mean the Prefbar, a Mozilla/Netscape add-on, which happens to have a Kill Flash option. I use it to take care of certain animated ads.
It works just the session, which is good. http://prefbar.mozdev.org
