[gui-talk] need to replace Google pop-up blocker

[Laura Eaves]

Joel -- Are you using IE6 as your web browser? If so, it has a popup blocker 
with an exception list built in.
HTH
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:46 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] need to replace Google pop-up blocker


Some time ago, I decided to install the Google tool bar, mostly just to
activate its pop-up blocker and see how well it worked.  If I recall, I
learned how to set up the toolbar an online streaming audio tutorial I was
directed to on a blind tech site I can't remember right now, I mean I can't
remember which.  I have this feeling that the tutorial was Dean Martineau's,
actually.  Maybe I'm misremembering.

Anyway, the blocker behaved more or less usefully for some time, but then I
began realizing that it was blocking some functions that the usual override
keystroke (Shift key in my copy of this blocker) didn't help with.  For
instance, there are some links for a printer-friendly version of a Web page
in certain online publications, such as Slate Magazine Online, where if I
click on the link normally, I hear the click sound that tells me the blocker
is blocking a pop-up.  So I press Shift Enter to allow it to open its page
and give me the printer-friendly version of the article, but all I get is a
new window and a Page Not Found message.

This happens on other Web sites, too, although never on sites where clicking
the printer friendly link on an article just takes you to another URL, the
way it works, say, at the New York times.  An I T professional friend just
took a look at it this evening, and he tells me it's because some sort of
Java script is being run and the blocker can't be successfully overridden.
He says it looks as if the Google blocker doesn't offer the option of
keeping a list of sites where the blocker should bow out and allow new pages
to load or pop-ups to pop up.  He says it doesn't look as if the Google Tool
bar offers this flexibility.

So, can anyone recommend a freeware pop-up blocker that's Jaws friendly and
more flexible?  it's been a long time since I was last pop-up blocker
shopping, and I can't remember where to look and would love to hear some
recommendation about the latest crop of such things.

Thanks much.



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