If I have a tab that has a picture and I open that picture in a new tab and then in the first tab click on a link I lose that tab with just the picture..........WTF!? it blocks shit but its by no means "LITE" there are many cases where it will block the new tab when you use MMB or "open in new tab".

On default it doesn't do anything. In the options you can tell it to close the pop ups after the specified time. Pop-up blocker means it blocks the pop up not closes it automatically. Worse it sometimes closes all pages throwing you to desktop.

it doesn't block popups at all, it just closes it quickly