I posted about the new Popups Must Die! Firefox extension yesterday and it did sound like a good idea at the time. Earlier today I uninstalled it because it was too strict. For example, Bloglines’ BlogThis! bookmarklet no longer worked since it causes a a pop-up. In order to use it, I had to create an exception to every site I wanted to blog about.
Recommendation: install only if you want no pop-ups at all, no exceptions. For you, it’ll work exactly as advertised.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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