How can I get rid of the popup blocker with SP2???

[Guest]

Hi all, I am a web developer and the new popup blocker feature in Service
Pack 2 is highly annoying and totally obstructs my work. All of my sites are
listings of some sort with lots of images that need to be enlarged (and thus
use a USER REQUESTED pop up to open them up larger in a new window). Sure, as
everything microsoft, it comes with very clear and easy instructions on how
to turn off this feature, but as usual, it's either faulty, inconclusive, or
just plain doesn't work.

In IE I go to: tools > popup blocker > and then I turn it off... but guess
what... it doesn't turn off. It "says" it's off, but it's not, it keeps
working... or better said, not working.

Online I can browse websites without the annoying popup blocker, but
offline, my local websites (the ones I work on before I upload them to a
server) cannot use the popups. It's driving me insane. Please help me.
Somebody needs to tell these guys that not all popups are unrequested and
that user requested pop windows are not only useful but a NECESITY... how
else would you see a slideshow of images, or fill out a user survey, or click
on a thumbnail to expand an image...

Geesh, it seems they made this thing to only please porn website visitors
who get a million unrequested automatic popups... popups have never ever been
a problem for me, and I spend at least 14 hours a day on the internet... I
never get them anywhere I wish to go to... sometimes a search result will
take me to an unwanted website and boom, I get a million popups, but other
than that, just a few here and there that usually only have surveys and/or
discount coupons of some sort that I DO wish to see.

Don't take me wrong, the feature IS a good one to have and I bet is probably
the best service pack they've come up so far... it's got a lot of pretty good
stuff that will make our pcs a lot safer... specially for self downloading
viruses and worms, but please let administrators have the choice not to use
it, or think of us web designers who need the ability to browse freely
offline... the option is there, but I need one that works!

I have spoken with every guru and webmaster I know and no one has the answer
and they all agree that this feature is a pain in the butt offline... and now
we can't show our projects to our clients offline without the clients
thinking that all those warnings and broken windows are the result of bad
programming.

The popup blocker settings come with a section where you can manually add
"safe" websites... but guess what... if they don't begin with WWW then you
can't add it. So, my local websites, again, the ones I have to test and work
on OFFLINE, obviously begin with C:// or D:// or whatever drive I have them
in... and those, I can't add to the safe list, so I still get all my content
blocked and when I'm lucky to get the warnings I can click off to let the
content work, then everytime I go to a new page, they reactivate themselves
and i have to keep clicking them. It really doesn't let me work, and I'm no
rookie either. I've been doing this for years and consider good at what I do.
Please, some expert out there with a heart, tell me what I'm doing wrong if
anything, I need to be able to browse my sites offline with their full
options without interruptions.

Thank you all very much for hearing me vent...

 

[Jan Il]

Hi TripleA

Try the following and see if it helps:

Disable Popup blocker in XP



XP has a lot of 'new features' built in and turned on by default:

The popup blocker that is installed with SP2 is simple to turn on and off
and is turned on by default. It shows down in the status bar of IE, and a
simple right click gives you the option to enable/disable the blocker. One
nice feature is that you can enable/disable popups for certain sites rather
than just arbitrarily enable or disable them for all sites.

Hope this helps

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[Guest]

Hi Jan Il, thanks for your response...

I know what you're saying, and true, an icon does appear on the status bar
on websites with automatic popups (as in this one for example)... I did right
click on it and apparently disabled it since the popups open on this site
now... but again, it doesn't do it for offline websites... to be more
specific, those website that I have built and saved in my PC. As soon as I
open one of the sites from C:// the status bar does not show the popup thing,
but the warning message and an extra bar appears at the top (under the URL)
that says "To help protect your security, IR has restricted this file from
showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for
options"... that's what I get on all my sites now, and I have no active
content, unless you call a simple javascript popup active content, which it
isn't.

One of the options that I get is "allow blocked content" which I select and
the message bar goes away... allow me to remind you that all of this is
happening with the popup blocker turned OFF... then I click on a thumbnail to
expand an image in a new window and there it goes again. In the new small
window it says the same thing and I again have to click on it to allow the
content. To the eyes of a client, this looks as if my code was bad or as if
their website doesn't work correctly, when in fact it does.

Like I said, online, I don't have this issue, it's only offline and you
can't add local addresses to the safelist of websites... enventhough you
shouldn't have to since the popup blocker is supposed to be OFF...

And if instead of right clicking and allowing the content, I just close the
extra bar, then when I hit the link to open the new window, the new window
won't open... but rather will change the parent window (where the link was)
to what the popup should have been... in other words, even worse.

I'm using windows XP with all service packs and security updates up to date.
I checked my PC with Norton Antivirus to see if I had any virus just in case
(which is obviously not related to this since I started having this problem
when I installed the SP2) and have Adaware too, to make sure I don't have
bad software on my system. So, I dare to say I've ruled out the posibility of
this issue not being IE related.

Thanks again for your concern, and I hope I'm explaining what happens more
clearly.

 

[Ricky]

Try going to internet options..advanced tab..scroll down to security and put
a check in Allow Active Content to Run in My Computer and see if it helps.

 

[Guest]

You hit the nail on the head Ricky!

That got rid of the annoying issue in offline browsing... it was so logical
that I totally skipped it. Has that ever happened to you?

But something still makes me scratch my head... how does a little html and a
javascript popup link qualify as "active content"... this code it doesn't
work on it's own, it doesn't think, it's not a program, it doesn't collect
info, it doesn't even use cookies... how can it be qualified as active
content?

Like I use to tell my students in school... for every 1 that raises his hand
with a question, it's 4 more that have the same doubt... since no one will
ask the teacher without first asking the people around him. You've just
answered this question to lots of fellow webdesigners who've downloaded the
SP2.

Thanks a ton!

 

[Ricky]

You're welcome...I'm glad it helped.