Pop-up Goes the Google
Those of you who use the Google toolbar, like I do, may have noticed recently that they upgraded it. They didn't ask you if you wanted to do it, they simply did it for you. Okay, it's pretty cool, so I don't much mind. I even decided to take advantage of its pop-up blocker functionality. I hate pop-ups as much as the next surfer. I was, therefore, highly amused to discover that the first time it blocked a pop-up, it gave me a pop-up window notifying me that it had blocked a pop-up. Sort of defeats the purpose.
Well, okay, it didn't do it the second time.
Comments
That is the problem with a feature that eliminates something, how do you know what life would be like without it?
Posted by: Rick DeMent | August 25, 2003 08:00 AM
Oh, it popped up a window bragging about itself every time it blocked another window. I couldn't believe it.
So I uninstalled it, but couldn't really live without it. Then I sent an email to their popup support -- yes, there really is such a thing -- asking them how to turn the thing off. They didn't answer, but amazingly the extra popups stopped.
Posted by: Mom | August 26, 2003 04:05 AM