Pop-Up Zapper
Helps eliminate popup ads in IE
Version: 2.67
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Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: FredericoR Tuesday, December 17 2002 @ 06:51 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Unspecified
witholding star rating until Ricardo can respond:Greetings, While I appreciate some of the new functions in v2.0, so far, this install has been flakey as heck, to the point of being unusable. 1) Getting it to activate is a thorough hit and miss proposition; the only sure way to get it to actually work is to fully logout, login, launch PUZ first, then IE, then you have to open an actually blank (not a new window that defaults to a home page) window to get PUZ to "see" that IE is now running. And, yes, I fully understand how I'm supposed to get it running; it just plain doesn't work as advertised, even if the menu says it's on. 2) Regardless of the hoops one jumps through above, (as noted on the website under known issues), the yellow/gold 'X' never goes away, and the PUZ Status window never acknowledges IE as active (whether it is or isn't). This makes verifying the true active state nearly impossible, save for going to a known popup-generating site and seeing what happens. 3) As if all of that isn't bad enough, this version, unlike 1.x versions, frequently confuses the parent window for the popup window, and kills the wrong one. This is demonstrated frequently and repeatedly at GistTV.com. 4) Further still, if you have 'Alert on Exceptions' enabled in the Java prefs (something developers require), PUZ will either not work at all; kill the parent window; and/or send the JavaScript error window into an endless loop (that would not otherwise be generated more than once on a page that has an actual error). (cont.)
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