Pop up blocker = browser crash

**herculesinwyoming** · 04-10-2012, 01:29 AM

I have never had a browser crash until today,I turned on the pop up blocker and after my browser went to crap. Turned pop blocker off and now browsing is back to normal for me.

**howarmat** · 04-10-2012, 07:24 AM

cant say i notice a difference with mine enabled or disabled. it crashes when it crashes

**kbz1960** · 04-10-2012, 07:49 AM

Never noticed any difference with or without popup blocker. I have notice since I am now closing the native email app after reading my email that I haven't had a poof of the browser since. Unless of course I go to one of the sites that poof it no matter what.

**howarmat** · 04-10-2012, 08:53 AM

email seems to take a good chunk of memory so it will limit your browsing capability more so than other apps

**herculesinwyoming** · 04-10-2012, 09:16 AM

Maybe I'm just lucky. I have never had a browser crash till last night when I turned on the pop up blocker. After turning it back off its back to normal for me.

**kbz1960** · 04-10-2012, 09:18 AM

I've had that off since July last year. I have had poofs.

**JeepBB** · 04-10-2012, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by herculesinwyoming

Maybe I'm just lucky. I have never had a browser crash till last night when I turned on the pop up blocker. After turning it back off its back to normal for me.

It would be interesting to do a little investigation, if you're game.

Were any other programs running at the time or had it been a while since your last re-boot?

After you've done a re-boot, does switching the pop-up blocker on/off cause a (reproducible) crash?

I suspect (based on nothing more than a hunch LOL) that your PB was short on memory and the pop-up blocker grabbing resources was merely the straw that broke PB's back. Especially as other posters above don't see the same effect.

Humour me, please... I'd be interested in the outcome.

**Chaddface** · 04-10-2012, 09:46 AM

I'm one with very few "poofs" and never used the pop up blocker.
Guess I'll turn it on and see what happens.

**joski** · 04-10-2012, 10:09 AM

I have the pop up blocker on, and I don't see nearly as many poofs as I did prior to OS2 becoming official.

Poof-free over here for the most part!

**kennyliu** · 04-10-2012, 10:25 AM

Mine has been always disabled, but the browser crashes nevertheless.

**Calico5** · 06-09-2012, 09:03 AM

Hmm my pop up blocker is turned on, but it doesn't seem to do a very good job! As for browser crashes, I do get it from time to time but not frequently enough to annoy me