On Aug 13, 11:05 pm, Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My aim is not to disable the pop up blocker, just to check if it is > present and show an error or notification to the user. Its not a pop > up, its opening an external website in a new window / tab.
There is no generic way of checking whether such a blocker is in place. Some browsers support this internally (i.e. Firefox) and some require add-ons (MSIE, as far i'm aware). In any case, popup blockers are not part of any standard, and therefore have no standard interface. You *MIGHT* be able to check for it in some browsers by checking some global JS property, but i doubt it. For example, in Firefox you can visit the special url "about:config" to see/set various settings, but i didn't find one with "popup" in the name.
