Popups

Glenno

Had a look at it once but decided not to enable. May need to re-think.

Cheers

Glenno

Tried it and allowed pop-ups for RACQ site, but all to no avail ?? :-(

Cheers

Bob

Can it be easily tried and discarded if not happy with result .. revert back to I.E. ??

Cheers

Rosco, FireFox uninstalls quite nicely, however, it is possible to run the two concurrently. So installing FireFox doesn't impact on IE in anyway at all.

No popups ??

See my respose to Nudie. What if you want some?

Cheers

I just read your post again and I see now that you are actually trying to view the pop-ups not stop them OOPS!
Should make sure my brain is turned on before I put my mouth into gear.

Normally I don't want them either.

However when following the link to RACQ in one of the adjacent posts, you need popups within the site for details on the various road reports.

This happens occasionally with other sites so I wish to selectively allow them.

Make sense??

Cheers

are you running XP...might be your security settings

Running XP pro, SP1.

Tried changing security to lowest setting from medium, but no effect.

Sam

Tried both options .... Ctrl, no change. Shift, "The page cannot be displayed etc etc" ?

sounds like a javascript link then if you are getting the "The Page cannot be displayed". You haven't got any other third party application that would be blocking them? Something that would be intercepting the popup after the browser has finished handling the call. As this sounds like what is happening. Either Google or MSN or one of the other popup blockers.

Running Vet anti-virus, Adaware and Spybot ???

Cheers

Now we're getting somewhere, disabled Ad-watch monitoring and all is well.

Thanks cobber

And thanks one and all for the various other suggestions.

Cheers

:-)

no worries. It sounded like it was a 3rd party app if the windows were popping up for a second and then disappearing as this indicates it was happening outside of the actual browser. If you want to still manage popups, just use the built in one within IE or FireFox. I can vouch for the IE one. Works well and you just tune it as you go to allow sites you want and block the rest.

cheers,
Sam.

Bearing in mind I'm a bit of a drongo in these areas :-)), where do I make the changes in I.E. ?

Checked Internet Options, but couldn't find anything.

Ta

You need to have XP SP2 installed as this installs the version of IE that has the built in popup blocker. If you have it installed, in the Tools menu, there is a Pop-up Blocker option (2nd from the top).

Not so far, to date I've been warned off SP2 so haven't loaded it yet.

Have the hassles been ironed out?

I put SP2 on all my home PC's without any consequences at all. Only had one problem at work. For some reason it managed to screw with printer selection over Citrix at one stage. I feel this was more a setup with Citrix as I left SP2 on my own workstation at work and all is working fine now. Removed it from the two other machines as the users were whinging. But might start thinking about rolling it out again.

For normal home users, there were very few apps that SP2 actually broke. Pretty much everything should be fine.