Re: Netscape 7.0.2 and pop-up manager

In article <BAB9DAED.1A87%[email protected]>,
 Bryan Berndt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Im and using Mac OS 9.2.2, and after installing Netscape 7.02, all
> seems fine. I checked out the pop-up manager, and it seems to
> function well.
> 
> After a few times of starting up the program, however, the pop-up
> manager dissappears from the preferences window. its just lot listed
> anymore under the Privacy and Security section. and then it never
> comes back, until I reinstall Netscape and sometimes it comes back for
> a few sessions, sometimes not.
> 
> I have tried removing all versions of Mozilla, and NS, and reinstalled
> NS 702, and I still have the same problem.
> 
> The Pop-up manaager still works, and I still can access it, but only
> when visiting a web site with known pop-ups, and then hitting the
> little warning button in the status bar that says its blocking a pop-up.
> 
> is there a line of code in the prefs.js file or something ican look
> for to make sure it isn't getting removed somehow? Or what snippet of
> code in what pref file sell NS that its should sho up in the
> preferences windows??
> 
> thanks for you time...
> 

Yes, me too!  I'd posted about this in netscape.public.general in 
January.

In my case, I get zero popups or popunders on just about any site.  
EXCEPT... http://www.nytimes.com would always give me a popunder.

And because like Bryan, my popup control disappeared from my 
preferences, I couldn't control it.  I COULD click on the "popup 
suppressed" icon at the bottom of the window to tell Netscape to ALLOW 
popups from a site, but could do nothing to tell Netscape to supress 
popups from the Times site or any other.

Finally, I figured I'd just install a new Netscape.  So I downloaded and 
installed 7.02, picking the option to completely delete my old Netscape.

Started the browser for the first time (actually, it's all I have; I 
said no to all the other Netscape stuff), checked my preferences, and 
THE POPUP CONTROL WAS BACK!  YAY!  But then I went to the NY Times web 
site and got a popunder anyway.  Went back to my preferences, and the 
popup control was GONE!  I'd never exited the browser.

I have played around with renaming the prefs.bak file to prefs.js, 
outright deleting the prefs.js file, anything to force recreating the 
file.  Nothing worked - the popup suppression preference was gone.

This is frustrating, and I cannot believe it's what is intended.  My 
Netscape 7 and 7.02 on my Windows computer have the control work 
perfectly.

Clearly, the preference is there in a newly-installed version of 
Netscape.  I want to know why it disappears, and how to keep it there.