>Everyone is familiar with hitting web sites which automatically launch advertisements in new browser windows, usually behind the main window so you see them after closing/minimizing the main browser window or seeing them pop up on the Taskbar. I personally find it quite irritating but just ignore it and close the windows.
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>I have been asked by a manager here if there is some way to override these windows popping up, even if by some programmatic method on our end. I honestly looked at him like he had four heads, antennae sticking out of each end head, cause I just didn't know and off the top of my one head I couldn't see any way to whack them ( the windows popping up, not the heads :-) ). I suppose turning off some level of active scripting might do it but, of course, that whacks a lot of things that you need to happen.
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>Does anyone know of a method to accomplish this???
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>Thanks,
>Bill

Opera, IMO, is a better Web browser than IE - except it is incompatible with a few sites (including, alas, the UT).

Opera includes an option that allows windows to open child windows, or something similar. On by default.

In many other respects, it has a better interface, too.

Hilmar.