April 6, 2005

another shot at pop-up blocking

Last week, I offered up an extension for testing some improved pop-up blocking capabilities. I got a lot of wonderful feedback and appreciate everyone who got back to me here and in email so quickly.

Today, I've got a slightly less draconian version of that extension which may still let a few evil pop-ups through but hopefully block a lot less of the non-evil pop-ups. Pop-ups triggered from plug-ins will still need to be whitelisted if you need them but most of the other areas where the previous attempt was overly aggressive should work again here.

If you're interested in helping us test this one, you can download it from here. If you have the previous extension installed, please uninstall (or disable) that one before testing this one. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated and should help us determine if we can offer this as a minor but effective update prior to the 1.1 release.

Thanks again for all the great feedback on the first attempt and I look forward to reading through all of the responses here. Oh, and definitely thanks to Dan Veditz who wrote both of these extensions :-)

Posted by asa at 1:59 PM

 

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