Javascript Open function will not reuse same window in IE

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robzgoogle

This issue is driving me crazy, I have an app which is referenced
via .asp pages and in one of these pages there is a javascript
function to open a popup window.

open("popunder.asp", "myPopUnder",
"width=300,height=100,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,alwaysLowered=yes,location=no,directories=no,titlebar=no");

Looking up various documentation it has been stated that if the same
window name is used then this window will be re-used. This is correct
on my Internet Explorer (v6 SP2) but on an end users PC it opens an
additional popup window even though the same code is being used.

To verify this I created a test.asp and simply duplicated the open
function previously stated. On my PC I got one popup window, on the
end users I got two.

It’s definitely Internet Explorer on this PC because I have installed
Firefox and there is no issue and the same window is referenced. I
need to get this fixed in Internet Explorer. I have compared IE
settings and also reset these but not had any luck.

The software is supplied via 3rd party and getting them to re-write
the code is not a great solution as it’s working fine for a majority
of PC’s here.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Hi Rob,

Turn off the other popup blockers that are installed with the user's
third-party toolbars. You can quickly test if this is the cause by running
IE in no-Addons mode.

At a guess she/he may be using either the AOL toolbar or one of the
FunWebProducts toolbars.

Regards.
 
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