Popup Blockers

Instead of getting pop-up blocker software, why not just get Mozilla Firefox?

I mean, ask yourself that question. Really. Why not Mozilla Firefox? It is provided with a self-sufficient pop-up blocker (although I've never seen the feature). Alright, that was silly of me to say about something I've not seen.

Fine, then. What about Internet Explorer 6 with Windows XP Service Pack 2? I'm sure people with that combination ... well, not all people but at least many really like it. I like it. I hope others do too. It's a really good software!

Firstly, it notifies you of any pop-ups it has blocked. Then, you can choose if you want to keep that permanently blocked, view the pop-up, or set it to "safe mode" for this website or that specific pop-up, I think.

Well, anyway, it's a really good program and I don't think it's necessary to download a pop-up blocking program. I think it wastes your computer's CPU & RAM usage during booting and start-up screen. I mean, UGH! It's really annoying to wait for a minute to get all quitened down, no?

But, still... I like pop-up blockers. They help us Thanks for that little Popup Free link thing.

 

 

 

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I started using Firefox yesterday and got about 20 pop-ups. I never got that many on IE. I figured I've heard so many good things about FF I'd give it a try, but I'm seriously considering going back to IE. Is there a way to to change the pop-up configuration settings that I haven't seen. I did a spybot scan and had to fix a bunch of things last night, almost never anything when I use IE, so right now I am highly disappointed with FF.

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Don't be, whatever you are experiencing is a severe fluke. I've installed FF on a crapload of computers, used it one a varying range of system on various connections going to various types of sites... and extremely rarely see popups at all.

That having been said, in the preferences there should be some basic popup options. As well, I know there are extensions available that make the popup blocker stronger. I don't know the exact name, but a quick search on the extension page would find them for you.

Really, the fact that you are getting popups where you didn't with IE is hard to believe for me haha. Unless you are looking at some crazy porn sites that know their visitors all use FF and they have specific ads to sneak past its popup blocker hehe

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No porn sites here for sure! Seems to be all the regular sites I go to. Thanks for telling me it's not always bad. Hopefully it's just a downtime for it or something, because I do like it. It's taking some getting used to, but overall, I can see myself switching if the popups stop.

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