Useful antipopup proggy

[]SK[]

Been using for a while now and still trying to find a site which can bypass it. Only found the odd site where the popup was needed. Can always add it to a whitelist anyway.

More info on it here anyway.

:bazbeer:

 

[xane]

Freeze animated .GIFs - load only the first frame

Strangely, something in your post seems to make this feature rather significant

Looks good, I'll give it a go.

 

[]SK[]

I personally turn that feature off, useful I guess on some sites.

 

[Gumbo]

I was a strong advocate of popup stopper, which was a great little program, but then it started to go a bit mental, and stop me opening browser windows and things like that.

Happily that coincided with me getting this wubbly new Phoenix browser, as recommended by Will, which seems to be stopping pop-ups fine.

It's also very fast and full of neat little functions, all in all, a great little app.

Here's a link.

 

[]SK[]

I used popup stopper before this one. Popup stopper worked great but doesnt filter out adverts on pages like this does. The odd popup would get past it too.

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Gumbo
Happily that coincided with me getting this wubbly new Phoenix browser, as recommended by Will, which seems to be stopping pop-ups fine.

Phoenix is everything I want from a browser, small, fast, and easily customised, no popups,and doesn't fill your PC with spyware.

You'd think I work for them or something.

 

[.cage]

I concur with will, phoenix is excellent.

 

[Will]

And you won't see us concurring very often, it must be special.

 

[dysfunction]

Hmmm.....I will test out this Pheonix browser...

So far the ones recommended before were utter shite so I wont be surprised if this one is too...

The ones recommended previously were Mozilla and Opera and I absolutely loath both of them

...I'd rather use IE6
:eek2:

 

[.cage]

yeah but you're a pinko

 

[dysfunction]

And you are a greeno

:bore:

 

[leggy]

lamos

 

[.cage]

Anything but a pinko, pesky liberals.

 

[]SK[]

All we need now is a proggy which prevents ppl going off the topic

:wall:

 

[TheJkWhoSaysNi]

i use adshield (www.adshield.org) it doesnt need to be run seperatley, because it installs itself into IE Great program.

 

[old.Kez]

Phoenix will be great when the coders finally get around to adding in half the options they need to in order to make it last. Mozilla is better, in that respect.

I still use it, though.

 

[mank!]

Just installed Proxomitron, I'll tell you how I get on.

 

[xane]

I just purchased and downloaded Norton Internet Security, I only wanted the AV but they were doing a special offer, it has an ad-blocker as part of it (it's blocking the advert at the top right now), so I am using that for now, I'll let you know how it gets on

Norton Internet Security is AV, Firewall, Ad-Blocker, Spam Filter and Parental Control, they all look pretty cool at the moment.

 

[MYstIC G]

They are, however _don't_ use the e-mail spam filter, as it really is shit and will junk anything for any reason it feels like. Its almost as if they based the filtering routines on .cage's personality cos its both useless & annoying at the same time.

And you can still use Proximitron with it as well anyway, it being a local proxy and all. Webwasher can supposedly do a similar job but without as much detail - http://www.webwasher.com/en/products/wwash/index.htm

 

[leggy]

Where was this special offer you speak of Xane?

 

[xane]

It's not a "special offer" as such, just that they point out that Norton Internet Security is only $10 more than Anti-Virus on its own, and I got suckered into it.

Saying that, I am quite glad, the Firewall is impressive and compares to Zone Alarm and Tiny PF, and despite what Meg thinks the spam filter is fine, it is just putting "Spam Alert" in the title at the moment tho.

I ordered an upgrade download from the US site, it cost about $45 (£28) including a download guarentee, as opposed to the UK site which was £30 for just AV, didn't seem to mind me registering from the UK either.