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December 5th 03, 12:24 PM
I've personally used a pop-up blocker from
www.PanicWare.com, free download. It's not so annoying as
other freeware I've used, to where you had to hit/hold
Control button, etc. There are others but I've been
comfortable/happy with this one. It's all preference I
guess.
Good luck.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi all,
> I'm trying to find a tool that stops popups from
halting my system all
>the time.
>The weird part is that I found a browser other than IE
that I use as the
>default browser... well, I'm getting
>to the weird part. It's called Avant Browser and clearly
has a core that is
>based on IE but has a slightly
>different interface, including tabbed windows along the
bottom which avoids
>opening a new copy of the
>browser for each new window that gets opened. Now, that
is the default
>browser. If I select a link in
>Outlook Express it will open in the Avant Browser (which
I found on
>webattack.com btw). However,
>some other apps will trigger a popup and the popup is a
IE window and then
>the next popup will soon
>follow from said app, opening an entire new version of IE
in memory. Each
>time a popup gets triggered
>things halt for a while. I'll be doing something and
have to wait till the
>popup appears and then releases the
>system - makes available other system resources. What's
annoying is one
>being unable to stop those popups!!!
>and two, the fact that everything gets so bogged down,
halting, not slowing
>down performance but halting it each
>time an app triggers a popup. Most popup blockers go
right into the browser
>but I need one that
>stops popups triggered by other apps. and something to
recover system
>resources or keep things moving instead of
>letting things just halt and having 12 or more IE windows
open in a short
>time when I'm not watching things.
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>Bruce
>
>--
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Bruce M. Whealton, Jr.
>Publisher/Webmaster Co-Editor of
>Word Salad - Literary Magazine at:
>http://wordsalad.net/
>ICQ # 15782569
>MSN IM:
>Yahoo IM: brucewhealton
>AIM: BruceMWhealton
>Check out some charitable sites:
>http://trianglesupport.net/
>http://triangle-resources.no-ip.org/
>http://savebruce.no-ip.org/
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>.
>
www.PanicWare.com, free download. It's not so annoying as
other freeware I've used, to where you had to hit/hold
Control button, etc. There are others but I've been
comfortable/happy with this one. It's all preference I
guess.
Good luck.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi all,
> I'm trying to find a tool that stops popups from
halting my system all
>the time.
>The weird part is that I found a browser other than IE
that I use as the
>default browser... well, I'm getting
>to the weird part. It's called Avant Browser and clearly
has a core that is
>based on IE but has a slightly
>different interface, including tabbed windows along the
bottom which avoids
>opening a new copy of the
>browser for each new window that gets opened. Now, that
is the default
>browser. If I select a link in
>Outlook Express it will open in the Avant Browser (which
I found on
>webattack.com btw). However,
>some other apps will trigger a popup and the popup is a
IE window and then
>the next popup will soon
>follow from said app, opening an entire new version of IE
in memory. Each
>time a popup gets triggered
>things halt for a while. I'll be doing something and
have to wait till the
>popup appears and then releases the
>system - makes available other system resources. What's
annoying is one
>being unable to stop those popups!!!
>and two, the fact that everything gets so bogged down,
halting, not slowing
>down performance but halting it each
>time an app triggers a popup. Most popup blockers go
right into the browser
>but I need one that
>stops popups triggered by other apps. and something to
recover system
>resources or keep things moving instead of
>letting things just halt and having 12 or more IE windows
open in a short
>time when I'm not watching things.
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>Bruce
>
>--
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Bruce M. Whealton, Jr.
>Publisher/Webmaster Co-Editor of
>Word Salad - Literary Magazine at:
>http://wordsalad.net/
>ICQ # 15782569
>MSN IM:
>Yahoo IM: brucewhealton
>AIM: BruceMWhealton
>Check out some charitable sites:
>http://trianglesupport.net/
>http://triangle-resources.no-ip.org/
>http://savebruce.no-ip.org/
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>.
>