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More Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Frustration: Popup Blocker!
By JLP | August 5, 2006
Well, I found another annoying thing about Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3: the pop-up blocker! It blocks EVERYTHING even when I turn it off! For instance, while composing this post, I often use a pop-up window when inserting a link. When I click on the link tab that opens a popup window, I get the “pop-up blocked” warning.
To make matters worse, the ONLY option avaibable in the pop-up bar is “temporarily allow pop-ups.”
Temporarily allow mean that it will work for a few minutes and then I’ll get the pop-up warning again.
So, I went into my Pop-up Blocker settings in the IE7 Tools menu and turned the pop-up blocker off.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t matter either. I STILL get the pop-up warning message even with the pop-up filter off. I even tried adding my blog account to the safe list and it STILL DIDN’T WORK!
Normally, this wouldn’t be that big of a deal but when I temporarily allow pop-ups, it takes me to a new screen and then I have to start over with posting the link in my post. And, if I haven’t saved my post, I’ll lose it all! And, even if I save my post, I still have to go back and find where I want to insert the link and start all over again.
Anyway, I hope Microsoft works out a better solution because this currently SUCKS!
Topics: Blogging, Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 | 8 Comments »
August 5th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Firefox, dude!
August 5th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Seriously, try Firefox… I switched about 2 years ago and have no regrets.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:18 am
You need to change the settings for the popup blocker. You probably have it set to “Block All Popups” when you should set it to “Block Most Automatic Popups”.
I don’t have any problem with the popup blocker at all. I’m having trouble relating to your frustration…
August 30th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Firefox sucks! seriously just stay with IE6 for now. I use IE7 at work and it does this exactly same thing but for google mail. It’s beta, so what did you expect?
March 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
even better…ditch Windows.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I agree with drew. Get rid of windows all otgether. They are always changing stuff to make life complicated. You should try linux. It is a hint of what windows (Microsoft) will do next and what mac is doing already…but tried to perfect it. Remember…Linux always comes first.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
That is why it is called Beta, the software is not final and you install it to help them test it.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
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