The last month or two I have been getting blank pop-up windows (just white space inside the popup, nothing else). Anyone else been experiencing this phenomenon?
I have used shareware popup blockers many times over the years, but in recent years, WinXP’s embedded popup blocker stops all but a very few of the popups, so I choose not to add software if it is not really needed.
I was having that happen on msnbc.com recently — another good reason not to have it open! And right after the blank windows appeared the browser was likely to crash.
You will get the blank popups when you have an ad blocker working but allow popups for the site.
It happens for me at mlb.com, since you have to allow popups to get the mlb.tv live games. Their ads will popup with blank windows.