* HOT: kill annoying pop-up Ad for free *

[swz]

i have popup stopper right now and while it does stop all the popups sometimes it's very annoying because i DO want the popup to...well...popup.

is there a smarter program out there that realizes which ones aren't real popups?

 

[Scitex]

Another satisfied Mozilla/Firebird user here. If you guys haven't tried it, you're missing out on a great browser. Only a 12Mb download for Mozilla and 6Mb for Firebird. It'll import your IE favorites and once you've tried tabbed browsing you'll wonder how you ever did without it. Just make sure and get the latest released version of Mozilla (1.3) as 1.4a still has a few bugs.

 

[Jtrav]

WHICH one of these destroys the popups with extreme prejudice followed by the gunshot sound? I loved that one, but I can't find it.

 

[Tung]

hehe thanks

 

[starwarsdad]

Originally posted by: Jtrav
WHICH one of these destroys the popups with extreme prejudice followed by the gunshot sound? I loved that one, but I can't find it.

Was that PopNot?

 

[airduct]

IE + Crazy Browser = no Popups

is ne1 able to stop netzero's popups? this is the only thing i can't stop w/ CB or popup stopper. thanks

 

[PrincessGuard]

Originally posted by: Delbert
You got one of them there ads on the left stoppers?

Proxomotron can filter out anything based on the HTTP headers and/or HTML code as long as you're willing to play around with the text matching language.

 

[papaschtroumpf]

Anyone knows if any of those can be installed under Windows NT without administrator rights? I couls use a popup blocker at work but the @#%%! in IS don't want to deal with it.

 

[wondersteve]

i hate popups

these are great programs ... if some of you dont use some form of popup blocked .... i would REALLY advised you to get one

 

[Gig103]

The one from Panicware is what I use and I love it...

It has a "paranoid mode" which I use, and NO NEW WINDOWS are allowed. So if i want to browse a new window I hold CTRL or SHIFT. Which isn't bad b/c if you think about it "Shift+Click" is a browse in new window and "CTRL+N" is open new window.

I recommend it!

 

[xkenny013]

The Phoenix browser is definately an A+ route to go to block popups. Ever since I installed it, I get 0 popups. Life is too cool...

 

[k000]

Originally posted by: Gig103
The one from Panicware is what I use and I love it... It has a "paranoid mode" which I use, and NO NEW WINDOWS are allowed. So if i want to browse a new window I hold CTRL or SHIFT. Which isn't bad b/c if you think about it "Shift+Click" is a browse in new window and "CTRL+N" is open new window. I recommend it!

Even Pop-Up Stopper ha same feature... no new windows allowed... use Ctrl or Alt or Shift to do that ! Cools

 

[k000]

Originally posted by: c627627
After testing many pop up software programs, I challenge anyone to post the name of a program they tested that is better than Popup Ad Filter 1.1 build 412

But then you have to pay money for that, right ?

 

[larciel]

popup stoppper is good, but lately, it can't handle 'good' pop-ups, even tho the site is added to the safe-list. .. and i have to press 'ctrl' while clicking....

pow on the other hand is almost error-free since you add which pop-up to be ignored.

 

[Ginta]

Originally posted by: MaDHaVoK
I have opera 7.0 and I like it a lot better than ie... plus it never crashed and has its own pop up stopper.


Opera 7.10

Cool thing with Opera is it has a "Open requested Pop ups only" as well as "Refuse all Popups" mode. I use the "request mode" all the time and only occasionally run into trouble on some the the heavy javascripted gamer mag sites. Opera has crashed on me when running some the the fancy plugins, but it remembers what pages you were last on, so when you reopen Opera they're all there (try doing that in IE ). I've toyed around with Mozilla on my linux systems, but sounds like I'll need to checkout Phoenix now.

 

[JuryDuty]

Well, for the past several hours, I have tried about every popup blocker listed, seeing what I liked best and least.

All in all, my favorite is Crazy Browser. It adds SO MUCH to the browsing expericence--and it actually uses IE as its base, so I don't lose out on the security updates, etc.

Crazy Browser aside, the only stand-alone I thought was worthy was AdShield and Pow! I'd have probably ended up sticking with one of those two if I didn't go for Crazy Browser instead.

 

[JuryDuty]

Whoops--double post.

 

[k000]

Originally posted by: larciel
popup stoppper is good, but lately, it can't handle 'good' pop-ups, even tho the site is added to the safe-list. .. and i have to press 'ctrl' while clicking.... pow on the other hand is almost error-free since you add which pop-up to be ignored.

How do I specify the ads to be ignored... one by one ??? And what is pow.. (I skimmed over the above discussion, but couldn't get that)

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Thump553
I looked at the documentation for Firebird, and have a couple of questions I didn't see the answers for:

1) I have tons of IE favorites I want to import into Firebird. Is this possible?

2) I have to allow popups on a site I visit frequently. I'd like to configure a browser to allow popups there but not elsewhere as a general rule.

1) When I first installed Mozilla one of the first things it asked me was would I like to import my IE Favorites. It works plenty well.

2) Mozilla 1.3+ actually lets you set exceptions for popups. When you enable popup blocker in the browser by default it set it so each time a popup tries to open it blocks it and puts a little icon down in the lower right corner on the status bar. If you click it you can set an exception for the site you're currently browsing, or any site for that matter. So I guess that was a long way of saying "yes, you can do exactly that".

Oh yeah, Mozilla also offers an image-blocking tool, to block all images from certain servers you can specify. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't allow for blocking shockwave files, which are the most annoying ads ever. If you decide to get Moz try out http://bannerblind.mozdev.org and http://adblock.mozdev.org

EDIT: Yes, I realize I wasn't talking about Firebird, but if Moz has it I figure Firebird should too. Oh yeah, Moz has an option to only install the browser as well, if that's why you'd preffer Firebird.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: airduct
IE + Crazy Browser = no Popups

is ne1 able to stop netzero's popups? this is the only thing i can't stop w/ CB or popup stopper. thanks

With the exception of the popups that say "please support netzero by clicking on ads" (the annoying in-system ones) you can stop all nz popups by doing something really simple. Go to your internet options, to the security section. Select "Restricted Sites" and go to modify the security settings. In there, disable everything. EVERYTHING. Once that's done, hit okay and then go to sites. Add the following url: http://nztv.untd.com . This is where all the popups come from. Once that's done you won't get any more popups from NZ.

 

[drewdogg808]

satisfied POW! user here.

 

[tc17]

Originally posted by: FreakyGuy
Even though Proximitron is last on your list I can vouch for it above the others. I don't know what you mean by learning curve, took me only a couple minutes reading the docs... I like how it can freeze gif animations and block ads not coming from the website your accessing.

I agree, Proxomitron in my opinion is by far the best popup killer, even better than the pay software. Its not quite as user friendly as it needs to be though. Its better because it actually rewrites the web page before displaying it.

 

[starwarsdad]

How do I specify the ads to be ignored... one by one ??? And what is pow.. (I skimmed over the above discussion, but couldn't get that)

Pow! can be found here.

 

[ivan2]

Proxomitron is the only thing you need for whatever browser you have in Windows. ima huge supporter for it.

 

[ragazzo]

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