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<title>Controlling Popups</title>
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<h1>Controlling Popups</h1>
<p>This document explains all of the options available in the Preferences
window of &brandShortName;.</p>
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In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#what_are_popups">What are Popups?</a></li>
<li><a href="#popup_blocker_preferences">Popup Blocker Preferences</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="what_are_popups">What are Popups?</h2>
<p>Popup windows, or popups, are windows that appear automatically without your
permission. They vary in size but usually don't cover the whole screen. Some popups
open on top of the current &brandShortName; window, while others appear
underneath &brandShortName; (popunders).</p>
<p>&brandShortName; allows you to control both popups and popunders through the
<a href="prefs.xhtml#web_features_options">Web Features preferences panel</a>.
Popup blocking is turned on by default, so you don't have to worry about enabling it
to prevent popups from appearing in &brandShortName;.</p>
<p>When blocking a popup, &brandShortName; displays an
icon <img src="images/popup-blocked.png" width="18" height="20" alt=""/> in the
status bar. You can use this icon to add a web site you're viewing to an exceptions
list so that the site is allowed to display popups.</p>
<p><strong>Blocking popups may interfere with some web sites</strong>: Some web sites,
including some banking sites, use popups for important features. Blocking all popups
disables such features. To allow specific web sites to use popups, while blocking
all others, you can add specific web sites to the list of allowed sites.</p>
<p><strong>Blocking popups doesn't always work</strong>: Although &brandShortName; blocks most
popups, some web sites may show popups using uncovered methods, even when blocked.</p>
<p><strong>Allowing popups from certain web sites</strong>: After you've enabled popup
blocking, you can still allow specific sites to display popups. Open the <em>Tools</em>
menu and select <em>Options</em>. From the Web Features panel, you can then add and
remove sites for which you want to disable popup blocking.</p>
<h2 id="popup_blocker_preferences">Popup Blocker Preferences</h2>
<div>This section describes how to use the &brandShortName; Popup Blocker. If you're not
already viewing it, open the Web Features preferences by following these steps:
<ol>
<li>Open the <em>Tools</em> menu and choose <em>Options</em>.</li>
<li>Click on the <em>Web Features</em> category.</li>
</ol>
From there, you can do the following things:
<ul>
<li><strong>Block Popup Windows</strong></li>
<li><strong>Allowed Sites</strong>: This is a list of sites that you want to allow
to display popups.
<ul>
<li><strong>Add Site</strong>: Click this to add a Web site to the list.</li>
<li><strong>Remove Site</strong>: Click this to remove a Web site from the list.</li>
<li><strong>Remove All Sites</strong>: Click this to remove all of the web sites in
the current list.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>When a Popup Window Has Been Blocked</h3>
<p>Every time a popup is blocked, an icon
<img src="images/popup-blocked.png" width="18" height="20" alt=""/> is displayed in
the &brandShortName; status bar to indicate that a popup has been blocked.</p>
<p><strong>Using the popup control icon to add allowed web sites</strong>: You can use
the popup control icon to quickly add a web site to the list of allowed web sites.
Click the icon <img src="images/popup-blocked.png" width="18" height="20" alt=""/>
to open a list of blocked web sites. The current web site is already selected.
Click <em>Unblock Site</em> to add the web site to the list of allowed web sites.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Blocking popups may not always work and may interfere with
some web sites. For more information about blocking popups, see
<a href="#what_are_popups">What are Popups</a>.</p>
<div class="contentsBox"><em>17 August 2003</em></div>
<p>Copyright &copy; 2003 Contributors to the Firebird Help Project.</p>
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