One other thing I’d love to know – is there a way to open the blocked pop-up window with a keyboard shortcut (opposed to having to click on a message with mouse)?

Thank you.

I think that IE’s popup is more intrusive for several reasons: 1) it makes a sound, disturbing any music or silence you may be listening to. 2) it shifts the webpage down about 20 pixels after the page is loaded. 3) IE’s blocked popup bar is yellow, which steals the eye’s attention and can’t easily be ignored. I’ve disabled IE’s blocked popup sound, but I still can’t concentrate when there’s a yellow bar in my way. I HAVE to click the X on the yellow bar to close it. And so for me, IE’s popup warning is a popup.

Opera’s popup notification is less intrusive. It doesn’t make a sound, it isn’t yellow, it is only in the upper right part of the screen, it doesn’t move the page content down, and it disappears after a second or two. Nonetheless, I have disabled Opera’s popup notification because I can just look to see if the trash can is blue. Usually, popups that are blocked are ads. But sometimes I expect a popup from a website and I don’t get one. I just check for a blue can. This means Opera doesn’t get in my way of browsing, but can still tell me if it blocked a popup when I want to know.