: Browsers with pop-up blocker enabled by default I'm trying to convince a client that adding pop-up or pop-unders isn't worthwhile. The argument "pop-ups are annoying and your users won't return"

@Yeniel560

The way you have worded the question implies you don't have access to the clients traffic data (if they have an existing website at all) If you had access to this it would make the task a lot easier!

To attempt to directly answer some of your questions:

"Can anybody provide a list of browser versions which have the pop-up blocker enabled in the standard installation?"

This was the best I could find: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Accessibility_features
In terms of usage stats this was the best I could manage in a hurry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Now my general advice. What information do they want the pop up window to contain? Special offers? Advice on navigating the site? A welcome message?

All of these would be visible for longer in the main content of the main browser window - and with appropriate styling they can be made just as prominent as a pop up window, if not more so.

What I also try is asking them to think about the big players online amazon, play, and any other reputable or popular shopping site they like using. You can almost guarantee they don't use pop up windows. If they don't, there is a pretty good reason for it.

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@Cofer257

All major browsers (i.e. >95% of users) have pop-up blockers, so uninitialised pop-ups - for example on window.load - will never work.

Unfortunately, many sites get around that by opening pop-ups when the user clicks on the page. You click a link and said link opens the page fine, but some Javascript has just opened a pop-up window. It's very prevalent on those spammy image gallery sites like 2leep.

So if it's a pop-up opening on page load, it will be blocked. But if it's a pop-up opened on click it should load fine.

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@Smith883

Specifically for Firefox and Ad Block Plus: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addon/1865. It has 107,409,448 downloads, and 12,885,006 active users.

Downloads

Download counts are updated every day and only include original add-on downloads, not updates.

Update Pings

Add-ons downloaded from this site check for updates once per day, and the total number of these update pings is known as Active Daily Users. Active Daily Users (ADU) can be broken down by add-on version, operating system, add-on status, and application.

All Addons have Downloads Count/Statistics. Go to the addon's main page, and it will be in the first main section of info.

But also, Firefox has blockers in its core options, and am not sure the data on that. Try doing a google search for it.

I am sure Chrome, IE, Opera, Safari might have similar statistics. Just do some digging.

Try this article.....at the bottom are some total stats: www.digitalopinionator.com/other-news/ad-blocking-software-statistics/

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