Google-chrome – Is Chrome’s popup blocker working at all

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Windows 7, Chrome 11.0.696.71

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/popup.html (popup link is about 1 page down)
http://www.buywebsitetrafficnow.com/Popunder-Demo.aspx

I've definitely got the popup blocker set to:
Do not allow any site to show pop-ups (recommended)
in chrome://settings/content

Chrome seems to ignore it completely and just pop stuff up.

Is this supposed to happen?

Best Answer

Both sites linked only trigger a popup when you click on a link provided. Chrome, Firefox, and most other browsers do not block popups triggered by clicking on a link. If they did, many web applications would break.

I think you'll find that popups triggered without clicking on links are still blocked. The aptly named popuptest.com will allow you to verify this.

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