Pop ups

[LSMFT]

Any way to keep crap from popping up when you are using the mouse?
Don't you hate it when some unrelated thing pops up at the same time you
are clicking on something? It burns my ass.

 

[Nil]

Any way to keep crap from popping up when you are using the mouse?

Yes. Don't click on it.

Don't you hate it when some unrelated thing pops up at the same
time you are clicking on something? It burns my ass.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[Char Jackson]

Any way to keep crap from popping up when you are using the mouse?
Don't you hate it when some unrelated thing pops up at the same time you
are clicking on something? It burns my ass.

I think the rest of us don't have that problem. Do you have a malware
problem?

 

[Ed Cryer]

Yes. Don't click on it.


I have no idea what you're talking about.

You must be in a very small minority there, Nil. Maybe someone maintains
your computer for you, and you never see what the rest of us do.

LSMFT, I see you use Firefox. Go to Options/ Contents and tick pop-up
blocker.

Ed

 

[relic]

Any way to keep crap from popping up when you are using the mouse?
Don't you hate it when some unrelated thing pops up at the same time you
are clicking on something? It burns my ass.

You mean the ones that pop up when you move the mouse cursor across them
without clicking on anything, don't you? (Share, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

I've tried lots of after-market blockers and only 'Super Ad Blocker' seemed
to stop them, but it's not free, and it can be annoying to use when it
blocks links that you do want to popup.

All the Toolbar blockers seem worthless.

 

[VanguardLH]

Any way to keep crap from popping up when you are using the mouse?
Don't you hate it when some unrelated thing pops up at the same time you
are clicking on something? It burns my ass.

You are NOT "using" the mouse between clicks. Moving the mouse around
does not affect the z-axis request by an app for its window. You moving
the mouse cursor around does not stop windows from getting focus (which
typically means they pop to the top).

Sounds like you have the "snap to" function enabled in your mouse setup.
That means the selected object in the focused window will have the mouse
snap to hover over that object. That way, you don't have to move the
mouse to click on a button. The mouse cursor is moved automatically and
you just do the click.

When windows change focus, and due to the reaction time for you to
recognize the change, your finger might be starting to apply pressure
the moment the focus changes. That means you could click on something
unwanted in the newly focused window. I have the "snap to" feature
enabled in my mouse and this mis-click sometimes happens. Not a lot but
occasionally. However, I find the "snap to" feature too convenient to
turn it off. In your case, if you don't find the "snap to" feature
invaluable then disable it. Thereafter, you'll have to move the mouse
to the button before you can click on it.

 

[Jack]

Any way to keep crap from popping up when you are using the mouse?
Don't you hate it when some unrelated thing pops up at the same time you
are clicking on something? It burns my ass.

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen this
type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on this page
to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find him a blocker
that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-congress-agenda/

 

[Nil]

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never
seen this type of popup. Roll your mouse over the
double-underlined words on this page to see what the OP is
complaining about... then try to find him a blocker that stops
them.

How do you know that's what he's talking about? He mentioned nothing
about it having to do with his web browser. His description is so vague
as to be meaningless.

 

[Bob Henson]

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen
this type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on
this page to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find
him a blocker that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-

congress-agenda/

They're Flash powered, so a flash blocker will stop them. "Flashblock"
extension in Firefox does it nicely.

 

[Nil]

They're Flash powered, so a flash blocker will stop them.
"Flashblock" extension in Firefox does it nicely.

I believe that's done with Javascript, not Flash.

 

[Ed Cryer]

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen
this type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words
on this page to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to
find him a blocker that stops them.

He could mean 'fly-ins' or 'floating' windows. Those are a pest;
especially the ones that follow you around.

Ed

 

[Char Jackson]

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen this
type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on this page
to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find him a blocker
that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-congress-agenda/

When I went to that page and allowed the first item to pop up, I
simply clicked the 'Block' tag provided by AdBlock Plus. ADP
auto-created a rule that blocks all of the underlined words on that
page and now none of them pop up.

If that's what the OP was describing, he didn't do a very good job.
Kudos to you for figuring out what he meant.

 

[Char Jackson]

You mean the ones that pop up when you move the mouse cursor across them
without clicking on anything, don't you? (Share, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

I've tried lots of after-market blockers and only 'Super Ad Blocker' seemed
to stop them, but it's not free, and it can be annoying to use when it
blocks links that you do want to popup.

All the Toolbar blockers seem worthless.

AdBlock Plus (Firefox extension) works well.

 

[Clog_wog]

You mean the ones that pop up when you move the mouse cursor across them
without clicking on anything, don't you? (Share, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

I've tried lots of after-market blockers and only 'Super Ad Blocker'
seemed to stop them, but it's not free, and it can be annoying to use when
it blocks links that you do want to popup.

All the Toolbar blockers seem worthless.

Get Opera!, mate, I bet you like it.
"By default, Opera will block pages from opening pop-up windows without your
interaction"
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/intro/using/coolfeatures/
<the fastest browser............ whooooosh!!!!!!!>

 

[Clog_wog]

congress-agenda/

They're Flash powered, so a flash blocker will stop them. "Flashblock"
extension in Firefox does it nicely.

Opera default, no need for some stoopid "extension".

 

[KCB]

?

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen
this type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on
this page to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find him
a blocker that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-congress-agenda/

If you click on one of those marked words, you will see a link at the bottom
of the pop-up to disable them. It actually works, too.

 

[John Aldred]

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen
this type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on
this page to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find him
a blocker that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-

congress-agenda/

I'm using Firefox 3.6. I see no double underlined words. I see links
(different coloured text underlined). If I hover the mouse over these
nothing happens. If I click on them I am taken to another page on the Fox
news site as normal.

However I'm using the NoScript add-on with Firefox.

If I use IE8 on Win7 I see what you mean.

 

[VanguardLH]

LSMFT wrote ...

It appears, from the bizarre replies, a lot of readers have never seen this
type of popup. Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on this page
to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find him a blocker
that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-congress-agenda/

Wrong. The OP definitely mentioned the *clicking* action getting
detected in the wrong window.

What you are talking about are intellitext ads: hovering a mouse over
the double-underlined word/phrase results in a popup. That takes
advantage of Javascript (so if Javascript is disabled then you don't get
the popups but then the words won't be double-underlined, either, as
those are words in an index table handled by the Javascript code in that
web page).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellitext

There are lots of other ad-content deliverers that use this technique.
They are referred to as intellitext ads because that was the company
that first siezed on the idea of shoving popup ads inside a web page
using the onmouseover event available in Javascript.

There is NO clicking involved to see the Javascripted popup. You just
position the mouse cursor over the sensitized word or phrase and the
popup appears. You could disable Javascript to kill off these in-page
popup ads but you lose a lot of functionality on which many web sites
rely as content in their web pages. Alternatively, you could use the
'hosts' file to add the FQDN (fully qualified domain name - which
includes the hostname since it is, after all, a *hosts* file, so you
cannot use wildcarded or substring searches on just the domain names
alone). There are many pre-compiled 'hosts' file, like the MVP version.
Or you could use a popup blocker add-on to your web browser that already
lists these nuisancesome intellitext ad sites (and many others). I do
the same inside of Internet Explorer 8 by using its InPrivate Browsing
feature and an imported .xml file to list the domains that I want to
block. Works pretty well. I don't like ad blockers since they often
kill more than just ads. I manage my own block list so updating the
..xml file is okay with me.

Also, the popup shown with the Javascripted onmouseover event is not an
actual window but shown *inside* that web page. So if another app
grabbed focus, it won't be that intellitext popup. That's already
inside the web browser you were viewing.

At the web site you gave as an example, I don't see any double-
underlined words (intellitext hotspots) because I've already got xxx
blocked using IE8's InPrivate Filter feature (or you could use an
ad-blocker that included the ad source or let you add it into a block
list). If you view the source for that web page, find the line:

<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a
href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript=foxnation">comments powered by
Disqus.</a></noscript>

If you have scripting disabled, they beg you to enable it. Disqus.com
is one of the ad-source sites that I block. As such, I don't get
bothered with those oh-so-wonderful keyword hotspots in the web page.
If I disable the InPrivate Filter and refresh the web page, yep, then I
get nuisanced with those keyword triggers if my mouse happens to hover
over them.

The OP has done a very poor job at describing just exactly what
situation is causing him grief. We won't know until he decides to come
back, read all the replies, and then choose to actually respond.

 

[Sunny Bard]

Roll your mouse over the double-underlined words on
this page to see what the OP is complaining about... then try to find
him a blocker that stops them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/15/taxes-nuke-treaty-lame-duck-congress-agenda/

Which double underlined words?

[FX: turns off Adblock+ and reloads page]

Oh, you mean *those* double underlined words?

[FX: turns Adblock back on and closes tab]

 

[Bob Henson]

I believe that's done with Javascript, not Flash.

Whichever, blocking Flash stops them. Would blocking Flash stop Javascript
running?