Need Your Anti-popup Help...

[audiobill]

I need your techie help.

I've had an anti-popup free program installed for the last year & it no longer works.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that will eliminate popups for me.


Please, help.

The popups are driving craaaazy.

Bill

[Hawkeye]

Have you tried Firefox? Once I ditched IE, pop-ups are, for the most part, a thing of the past.

[Davey]

Google works great for me. Been using it for a couple years or so.

[Swish]

I need your techie help.

I've had an anti-popup free program installed for the last year & it no longer works.

Does anyone know of a freeware program that will eliminate popups for me.


Please, help.

The popups are driving craaaazy.

Bill

over a year ago on the advice of J and Jack70 I thin (they were actually responding to someone else but I took the bait as well), and it's been pure joy. This site, for one, loads much faster than with IE and the pop-ups are all but gone. It's free too, so no issues there. Go to their webite at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html and follow the instructions.

Another side benefit is that Mozilla users aren't as likely a target for spyware as is IE since the bad guys usually target Microsoft.

Regards,
Swish

[MomurdA]

1.Get Firefox. IE is a friggin joke, only useful when java pages dont load in firefox correctly.
2. Get spybot search & destroy. Immunize IE from a list of over 6000 popups. Or turn ytour pop up blocker settings in ie to high.
3. Make sure your stuff is uptodate. windowsupdate.microsoft.com

[Swish]

1.Get Firefox. IE is a friggin joke, only useful when java pages dont load in firefox correctly.
2. Get spybot search & destroy. Immunize IE from a list of over 6000 popups. Or turn ytour pop up blocker settings in ie to high.
3. Make sure your stuff is uptodate. windowsupdate.microsoft.com

get rid of in my registry. One of the IT guys from my company suggested I download the free beta version of AntiSpyware from Microsoft. I did so, ran it, and eliminated the mess and I've had no problems since. I would highly recommend it at this point. Just go to Microsoft.com and hit "favorite downloads" to find it. Sweeeeeeeet.

Swish

[Hyfi]

If you like Firefox, also try Opera. It is another Unix/Linux based browser that is 95% supported. I only use IE if a site won't load properly. Firefox is much faster page load for dialup also.

All of the other suggestions are good also. I personally use and recomend to the average user, Norton Internet Security. It has Spam Block, Popup Block, Personal Firewall so you can ditch the Security Center in Service Pack 2. It has many other great features but does use some system resoures more than other software.

[audiobill]

A BIG thanks to all of you for the help.

I've decided to go with Firefox. Google was what I used to have, but it stopped working after 586 popups were zapped.

So far, Firefox seems faster than IE.


By the way, I'm now trying to get the RSS feature to work (i.e., the ability to have streaming healines on my browser??).

Anyone who uses Firefox & has this feature: Can you tell me how to do this??


Thanks-a-ton,

Bill

[Hyfi]

A BIG thanks to all of you for the help.

I've decided to go with Firefox. Google was what I used to have, but it stopped working after 586 popups were zapped.

So far, Firefox seems faster than IE.


By the way, I'm now trying to get the RSS feature to work (i.e., the ability to have streaming healines on my browser??).

Anyone who uses Firefox & has this feature: Can you tell me how to do this??


Thanks-a-ton,

Bill

Here is your instruction page
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks

There are lots of third party extensions you can download also
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=firefox+rss+extension&btnG=Search

Have fun

[Hawkeye]

Before this thread gets moved...I used this to speed up page loading in Firefox. I'm still using an older version (1.03), so this may have already been incorporated into the newer releases. Doesn't hurt to check though.

1. In Firefox, type "about:config" (without the quotes and without the underscore - this site inserted it, not me) into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following 3 entries:


network.http.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.proxy.pipelining


Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When
you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up
page loading.


2. Alter the entries as follows:


Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" (double-click the entry)
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" (double-click the entry)
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 20. (double
click the entry)


3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New -> Integer. Name it
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay" & set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on
information it receives.



If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now.


http://funnyfox.org/

[audiobill]

Internet Explorer is history in my books.

Thanks everyone for turning me onto something way better.

Mozilla/firefox have a new convert.


Thanks again,

Bill

[jack70]

......I used this to speed up page loading in Firefox. I'm still using an older version (1.03), so this may have already been incorporated into the newer releases....

I wouldn't bother with that tweak, especially with a broadband connection. It's HARD on servers... overstressing them, and for no (real) good reason. It may even cause you more problems in the long run, depending on the site.

Another note on Firefox... they've had a dozen security holes plugged within the past 2 weeks. So if you've not updated your version, you should... I think the latest version is ver #1.0.6 Doing so is very easy. You only need download the latest exe file, and open it (offline is cool). It'll replace all the operative files that need replacing, but leave all your preferences, bookmarks etc alone. (no need to save them beforehand). One of the neat things about Firefox is the fact it imports icons of bookmarks you've made. The old IE used to do this too, but that got sh_t-canned when it was used as a security exploit. (I think).

Your extensions should also be saved OK when doing an upgrade (I've not hasd any problems). I only use a few extensions ...the most useful is one that places an "x" onto every tab, letting you close a tab with a single click on the "x".

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/tabx

Tabbed browsing is easier to do with Firefox (click links with the scroll wheel). You can do that with IE, but you need to hold down the Ctrl+Shift when clicking links. The NEW IE is expected to be a rip-off of many of Firefox's attributes. As nice as Firefox is, it doesn't support ALL javascript, BG sounds, transitions, and some other things.

[MindGoneHaywire]

I think you're referring to what I've seen called favicons?

One extension I use for opening new links is Super Drag And Go. I've seen some skepticism expressed about some of the extensions, and I only use a few, but that's one of them. I also use Image Zoom--you right-click on an image, and you can resize it right on the web page you're viewing it on--and AdBlock. Which is the #1 tool for speeding up page loads so far as I can see. Right-click on any ad, and it'll pop up in a window. I usually shave off the part of the URL that points to that specific ad, and boom. I'll never have to look at anything from sites like doubleclick or tribalfusion. Unless I have to use IE for stuff like Windows Update or something like that. Last night I was on the Symantec site & I had to use IE. Yuk. Firefox is the best.

[Woochifer]

Been using Netscape 7.2 and it's got a built-in popup blocker and a spam filter on the e-mail application. I also use Firefox, but go with Netscape more often because it manages all of my e-mail accounts and IMs.

[audiobill]

Hey, MindGoneHaywire.

The AdBlock extension is wonderful!!

I've gone through my favourite internet sites and taken out the ads. They load quicker than ever before.

Thanks-a-ton,

Bill

P.S., Nextup........... tabs

[jack70]

I think you're referring to what I've seen called favicons?
Yup... they're called favicons (short for "favorite" icons). I used to see them in my Internet Explorer "favorites" many years ago, but they disappeared with newer upgrades. But the newer Firefox-builds make use of them. They're simply small icons that are put in the root folder of websites. Most sites have them, but not all. It may also depend on the type of server used too (?). Most browsers will "fetch" them when you click any normal URL link as part of the page's download process (at the end), but not all browsers will visably show them, even though they'll be saved to your cache. They (the icons) also need to be below a certain size to be saved (in Firefox). In fact Jeff Zeldman, one of the web's hippest designers (& teachers) has a favicon that's animated, but too large to work with Firefox. Of course, Jeff is an old school Apple guy so he wasn't aware (or cared all that much?). But he's received a ton of grief over it by the masses ever since Firefox has become so well used... LOL.

I wasted a good hour making a few the long way, painting longhand with a 16x16 pixel grid. I got a few that turned out OK, but it's kinda hard to get much resolution or contrast with that small a pic... LOL. Of course, most are more simple functional than artful.

Favicons are aesthetically cool, but also actually very useful as they speed up finding certain websites from your bookmarks. They're especially usefull if you have as damn many bookmarks as I have... your eye can pick em out faster than reading down a list, even when in alphabetical order. Once you bookmark a site, you have to click it again from it's bookmark list, and it will add the icon to the bookmark.

Another extention... Brian, you might like this... it's useful for web-developers. A simple toolbar (can be hidden) that allows visual outlining & checking of web pages.... very cool:
http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/