I've previously written via email to TPM about this but heard nothing, so I thought I'd vent here.

TPM recently began using "Opinion Central" to solicit user feedback.  This product is relatively notorious (simply google "opinion central" to see what I mean) and it's a shame TPM continues to use it.  There are plenty of reasonable ways to get user feedback: this ain't one of them.

To recap briefly the issues with Opinion Central:

1) This popup window resists attempts to close it: it minimizes itself after you restore it from the taskbar (e.g., to close it), and it prevents you from minimizing the TPM browser window.  You end up having to "sneak up on it" via judicious window positioning, or killing it from the taskbar.

2) It occasionally interferes with multiple tab browsing in firefox -- when the popup is showing, edit boxes in other tabs will sometimes refuse to work until you close the Opinion Central window.

This product is using sneaky javascript in an attempt to preserve itself and keep the focus on its host website.

I think that sucks, and I think TPM should treat its users better: it's great that you care what we think, but don't jam a notorious survey product down our throats to try and find out.