Everyone should be able to enjoy a distraction-free browsing experience. Yet popup ads can be a constant nuisance. Enter popup blockers. These software tools or browser extensions are designed to ...

Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them. Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, ...

The humble pop-up window wasn't always a tool for spam, and it still can be used for good and not evil. When Safari is stopping you from seeing one you actually want, here's what to do. It is still ...

Do Notepad popups represent a security risk or are they simply another way for spammers & marketers to annoy us? Because of a design flaw in Internet Explorer, Notepad popup windows can be displayed ...

Microsoft and Google have been waged in a years-long battle around Google Search, Bing, Chrome, and Edge. And it just continues, with Microsoft now pushing Bing heavily on Google Chrome users through ...

You're browsing different websites when suddenly a pop-up window declares, “Your computer was locked” and tells you to call “Windows engineering” at a toll ...

Despite being 43 years old, Breakout still manages to be an addictive game, challenging your reflexes as much as the latest first-person shooters do. A browser-based game called Brickception manages ...

Android: Popup Widget turns any Android widget into a popup window that can be launched from a single icon on your home screen. Best of all, you don't need to make room for it—just tap the icon, and ...

Not all pop-up windows are evil spam, some of them remain genuinely useful. Here's how to get Safari on macOS Monterey to show you the ones you actually want, while still shielding you from all of the ...