Pop up windows are really distracting – they do no good to the user despite earning the website owner a couple of bucks from the advertiser.
Let’s say you are browsing the web with a lot of open tabs in Google Chrome and suddenly your computer screen fills with unwanted browser pop up windows. You have to close all these pop up windows one by one, until you can go back to the sites you were reading or surfing earlier.
Better Pop Up Blocker is a chrome extension which can be used to block pop up windows and other unwanted overlay browser windows in Google Chrome. Works simple – head over to the extension page and install the extension. Once the extension is installed, you will notice a new icon on Chrome’s address bar as shown below:
Better Pop Up Blocker improves the default Google Chrome pop up blocker by blocking pop up windows opened by javascript & other annoyances that it misses like alert, prompt, and confirm boxes. They often occur when you simply click on what looks like blank space or text that shouldn’t do anything, let alone annoy you with a pop up window.
While the extension blocks pop up windows in Google Chrome silently, you can always allow specific pop up windows by clicking the address bar button. This includes, allowing pop-ups from a specific site and temporarily lifting the pop-up block. [ via ]
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