Pop Up Killer and Blockers - Stopping Annoying Pop ups

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Computers )



Every person wired on the internet is sure to have encounter pop ups. But what exactly are pop ups?

Pop ups are considered as GUI or graphical user interface display area which are very common on the World Wide Web and are usually Java Applets in nature. Pop ups are commonly small windows which literally pop ups in your desktop. These GUI’s are commonly triggered by mouse clicks, rollovers and time-initiated events. Pop ups are usually smaller than the background window. Pop ups are usually used to advertise a product or service.

The overwhelming popularity of pop ups moved programmers and web developers to create programs that can stop the annoying popping up of these pop ups especially when you don’t need them. The fruit of their extensive research and programming gave birth to pop up blockers.

A pop up blocker software is also called pop up killer by many. Examining the term, someone can get the idea that these are specialized programs used to block or prevent pop ups from appearing in a user’s Web browser and in some instances, kill them. Pop up blockers perform in different methods. There are pop-up blockers that close a pop up window even before it appears. Others attack the command which instructs the pop-up to appear.

The emergence of pop up blockers and pop up killers eventually triggered pop up makers to evolve or mutate their pop ups into formats that these programs may find hard to detect. Now there are the so-called floating ads which are an alteration of pop ups. Floating ads are displayed for a specified time (usually in seconds only) over a webpage before disappearing.

Parallel with the evolution of pop ups is the pop up blocker software revolution wherein pop blockers and pop up killer are updated for a better performance and pop up blocking capability. The integration of pop up blockers and pop up killer into web browsers is one implementation. It is very evident in Internet Explorer which displays how many pop ups have been blocked since the opening of the browser window. The main search engines Yahoo and Google also adapted the integration of pop up blockers through the Yahoo Toolbars and Google Toolbars respectively.

Pop-up blockers and pop up killers can help you save time during your internet surfing hours. These programs can give you the comfort of browsing your favorite web sites without having to close a pop-up every time it pop-ups but the drawback is pop up blockers cannot always differentiate between unwanted and user-requested pop ups.

It is just a matter of choice and well-thought analysis of the available pop up blocker software that you can get your desired pop up blocking capability.


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