Posted by Animesh Kumar on 06/30/05 01:15

Captain Dondo wrote:

> Adrienne wrote:
>
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Travis Newbury"
>> <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> writing in news:1120051785.377218.129270
>> @g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>
>>> You know what would be a great browser feature? If the browser could
>>> tell the web page if thee is a popup blocker running.
>>>
>>> The page opens, tests for the existance of the pop up blocker, and
>>> takes the appropriate action with the links.
>>>
>>> Of course the "anti-popup for any reason" crowd won't think this would
>>> be a cool feature...
>>>
>>
>>
>> The problem is that too many people have abused pop-ups that most
>> blockers block everything. That can get annoying quickly when you
>> want to download something and the ****ing blocker blocks your
>> download, or you _want_ that little calendar widget to open so you can
>> select some date four months from now.
>>
>> That's one of the reasons I really like Opera. I can open pop-ups I
>> _want_, and I don't have to save a list of allowed servers.
>>
>
> I just spent a half-an-hour fighting with Seagate's new RMA website....
> ARGHHH!!!!
>
> First off, it checks browser versions, and if you don't have Netscape
> 7.0 or IE 5.5+ it won't work.... Forget Firefox.
>

Complain to the website and return their product. That's one way out of
such nasty companies.

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