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IE To Block Pop-Ups
smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
My favorite pop-up blocker is google's toolbar.,
If I'm going to have some stupid something sitting my windows toolbar section, it might as well do some useful stuff--search google, block pop-ups, and give me pagerank.
I love free software.
Davak
Or, MS just uses the same "Allow requested popups" option that Opera has.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Mozilla and Opera block automatic popups.
The shopping carts you describe prompted by the user clicking somewhere.
And in case you are afraid of false-positives, Mozilla alerts you whenever it blocks a popup (small icon at the left of the browser status bar) and you can unblock it.
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
Privoxy is an open-source web proxy that blocks ads of all kinds, and is highly customizable. It'll run on Linux, Windows, OS X, and god-knows-what-else, and will block all those annoying banners with a high degree of effectiveness. Better yet, it's been available since 2001; once again Microsoft is offering too little, too late.
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
it wouldn't be the first time microsoft stole a feature... i hear longhorn is gonna have virtual desktops...linux has had it for years... a lot of their interface is...shall we say...Mac Inspired (ex. the trash can)...
And the part that isn't Mac inspired is OS/2 inspired (right-click context menu, anyone?)
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You can actually download a *powertoy* from Microsoft that will allow for up tp 4 virtual desktops in XP
alias dir='rm -rf
Ever install a version of Netscape with popup blocking?
By default, it whitelists netscape.com, aol.com, cnn.com, and a bunch of other sites associated with AOL and Time Warner.
MS could very easily do the same in IE.
Yeah but its windows only. Check out Privoxy. Its open source and runs on all these OSs
I like it better than Proxomitron.
The unofficial
You should try Avant browser then. I'm looking right now at my "allow/block flash animations" on my toolbar, right next to the "allow/block pictures" and "allow/block popup" buttons. It's built on top of IE so it's pretty good and it has many features that I love about Mozilla like tabbed browsing. And it's free, though you are encouraged the first time you start it to donate a few bucks via PayPal to the author. I've been using it for a few months now and it works great.
MYIE2 is a 3.3 MB download addon to Internet Explorer that adds pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, super drag and drop, customized searches from the address bar, aliases, and is highly customizable, so in a way, you already can get those things in IE.
I understand that it doesn't fix CSS or any of the security flaws, but it is a nice option for the hopelessly addicted IE user. Oh, and its free.
Requested popup: a popup that is triggered by an OnClick or similar JS event, as opposed to popups that are triggered onUnload, OnLoad, OnHover and timed events triggered from those events. There used to be an excellent test for popup killers, but it appears down at the moment. This one isn't nearly as good, but it'll have to do I guess.
Karma: Could be worse (could be raining)
Google's toolbar is better.
Blocks popups, fills in forms when requested without sending the information back to the vendor, and the search box and news buttons are always nice.
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Use Vobbo for Video Blogs
moving or resizing of windows
raise or lower windows
hide the status bar
change the status bar text
change images
create or change icons
read cookies
for the browser and mail independently. Until MS releases ActiveX for Gentoo, I won't be worrying about that either. ;)
They'll still be able to make Notepad Popups
If IE blocks popups like Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, and everyone else, then advertisers will just use much more invasive, hard-to-block ads. It will accelerate the arms race between marketroids and Internet users. Maybe ads will use Flash, Java, or some random security hole. As long as the unwashed masses are vulnerable to popup ads, they will be advertised to with popups and those of us who use good web browsers (read: not IE) won't see much invasive advertising.
It's an operating system, not a religion.
The PNG transparency issue is one that has been addressed by Microsoft, albeit in a way that is so fucking ugly it can only have come from them.