request: popup toggle up front

Most of the time, popups are annoying ads for pc cameras and the like. But 
there are lots of sites that use Javascript popup windows legitimately. 

To deal with this, I suggest the Toggle to allow popups be moved from the 
Settings->Filters dialog to the Toolbar. 

Further, this Toggle would Blink and make a Sound whenever a popup is 
defeated, indicating that the web site tried to put one up. This way, if a 
site is supposed to put up popups as part of its interface (e.g. a site that 
shows thumbnails of images but displays them fullsize in a popup window) the 
user is made aware why the site is not behaving as expected and can enable 
them for as long as he/she is viewing that site. 

A little device called Pop-Up Stopper from http://www.panicware.com running on 
windoze gave me the idea. It sits as an icon in the toolbar and blinks and 
makes a squawk each time a popup is put down. Double-clicking the icon 
disables and re-enables it. 

Perhaps the other Filters should be moved up front as well, because lots of 
them (Java, Javascript, etc.) really do need to be selected on a site-by-site 
basis. 

-- j 



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