XP Pop-Up Blocker

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Death2PCs

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Oct 30, 2003

• #1

Does anyone know of a free/cheap and effective Pop-Up blocker for Win XP Home?

This is driving me insane. Everytime I use my roommates CPU it makes me so glad I use a Mac. I hate skool for making me need to use a PC. HELP!

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 30, 2003

• #2

http://toolbar.google.com - the best solution, direct access to the best search engine on the planet, and built in pop-up blocker!

 

LimeLite

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 30, 2003

• #3

Originally posted by edesignuk
http://toolbar.google.com - the best solution, direct access to the best search engine on the planet, and built in pop-up blocker!

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And just like that, an Apple oriented site is able to give great advice for a PC user.

 

manitoubalck

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 30, 2003

• #4

I've turned off all the popups on my machine, all you do is select "Don't display this message in future" when ever a popup comes up, sooner or later they are all gone.

P.S: II know what you mean, I hate popups

 

TEG

macrumors 604

• Oct 30, 2003

• #5

Use Mozilla or Netscape instead of IE, that should solve all your pop up problems.

TEG

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 30, 2003

• #6

Originally posted by TEG
Use Mozilla or Netscape instead of IE, that should solve all your pop up problems.

TEG

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Argh! No, DON'T use Netscape! Maybe Moz if you don't mind it taking a while to load. Best browser for the PC is Firebird (google 4 it).

 

sparkleytone

macrumors 68020

• Oct 30, 2003

• #7

MozillaFirebird

Firebird Firebird Firebird!

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/nightly/latest-trunk/MozillaFirebird-win32.zip

 

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Chealion

macrumors regular

• Oct 31, 2003

• #8

I'll echo Firebird, Firebird, Firebird! I never use IE on a PC. I use Firebird. Its the best browser IMHO on the PC.

 

TEG

macrumors 604

• Oct 31, 2003

• #9

Originally posted by edesignuk
Argh! No, DON'T use Netscape! Maybe Moz if you don't mind it taking a while to load. Best browser for the PC is Firebird (google 4 it).

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Dude, Firebird is Mozilla (V.2.0). All I ment is to goto mozilla and find one you want to use. Also Netscape 7, athough filled with AOL BS, is a very fast browser on XP as well a for Un*x systems running Gnome.

TEG

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 31, 2003

• #10

Originally posted by TEG
Dude, Firebird is Mozilla (V.2.0).

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I know that, but Mozilla is the name of a browser, Firebird is a nice lightweight, and best implemented version of it.

 

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Chealion

macrumors regular

• Oct 31, 2003

• #11

Firebird is a stand alone browser. (So is Camino, but thats Mac OS X only)
Thunderbird is a stand alone email client.
Mozilla is the full meal deal of browser and email together, ala Netscape Communicator.
Netscape is Mozilla with ads, lots of extra software and AOL branding everywhere.