Kosmo

For those of you who use this program, have you ever had the problem where it closes ALL the windows? Even your homepage?

I dig this program, but this new development makes it unusable. Anyone ever have this problem and figure out how to solve it?

Dark Jedi

www.mozilla.org

This is the browser that Netscape and IE are based off of, and try to keep up with. (Netscape more than IE).

It has a built in popup stopper that works better than anything I have seen.

Why?
Popups are a Javascript command. When you disable popups, it does not kill them, it simply ignores that Javascript command, natively. No false kills, which is killing your main/home page window.

The popup makers are learning, and they do a neat little trick that forces a popup to refresh all your browser windows. Since it was a popup command that did it, the popup killers close them all.

Mozilla does not, since it ignored the command in the first place. It also enables you to disable the resizing/fullscreen commands and the ones that take away all your control menus.

Seriously, I simply cannot understand why anyone uses anything else anymore.

lpetrich

Actually, Netscape Navigator is essentially a Netscape-branded version of Mozilla with a few extra features here and there.

MS Internet Explorer is totally separate from it.

And Apple's Konqueror-based browser Safari can also block popups.

everlastingtongue

Here is a link to a popup stopper I�ve been using for nearly a year. Is hasn�t given me any problems in either Windows 98, 2000, or XP. The main engine blocks about 95% of popups in my experience and you can train it to stop the others. The only caveat is that it supposedly only works with IE.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/fs.htm

Silent Dave

I started using Mozilla a few months ago, and have never looked back. Even though it can be a bit slow.


Dave

Kosmo

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm not quite ready to switch browsers just yet. I fear change.

I'll see how this FreeSurfer works and then consider the new browser.

Thanks again.

Melkor

I use Crazy Browser. It uses IE's engine (which is already on your system, if you have Windows) to render webpages, but has a Mozilla-like interface, including popup and javascript controls. It's good for those (like me) who don't like how ridiculously slow and buggy Mozilla is, but still want a higher degree of control over your browser.

I also use in concert with that a 3rd party utility called Proxomitron.

Between those two things, I have an almost 100% ad-free, totally popup-free web surfing experience.

I'm guilty a number of times of posting links to things and having people come back to me and say things like "d00d there were like a bazillion popups on that page!!".

But that's because the internet that I'm on doesn't have anything like that anymore. I don't even see those really annoying, obtrusive flash ads that I've heard Yahoo has now.

Comquirk

www.adshield.org

The absolute best popup blocker that I have ever used. It will block ad popups and ususally allow popups you need.

You can even block actual ads on webpages. You just right click and hit "Add to block List" and it'll block ads from that source 95% of the time.

Try it out, it rocks the proverbial cashbah.

Graeme

www.opera.com

another good one that blocks popups, you can also do basically everything (next pg, prev pg, open pg, close, duplicate, etc) with the mouse.

matthias j.

So many browsers, one to rule them all:

Phoenix ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ )

It's Gecko based (same engine as Mozilla/Netscape 6.x), free, easy and light on resources.

And yes it has a pop-up killer (the same as Mozilla actually)