Pop Ups
I visit a lot of sites throughout the week but have never run across a site with as intrusive and annoying popups as the ones on this site. I have two pop up blockers in my system and use Firefox and these damn things keep popping up. It's so annoying that it takes the pleasure out of visiting the sight.
Am I the only one?
nope. I'm using firefox too, but I just cancel them and they don't appear to often
This has been brought up so many times already in the past few weeks. Stop bitching and do something about it!
You're not the first person who has noticed this. Search for popup or pop-up in all forums over the past 6 months and you will find l-o-t-s of stuff.I use Firefox and set up Javascript a bit (to stop windows from being resized and moved around). I also use Norton Internet Security. For both of them, I turn on whatever popup- and ad-blockers are available. I get no popups on this site. That solution has its pluses and minuses (mainly, CPU and memory burden from NIS); there are other good solutions.
if you put IEs blocker up to the max, it stops the pops. It also stops links from opening automatically when you click on them but no big deal.
> if you put IEs blocker up to the max
Doesn't that screw up some friendly Web sites, though? Hopefully that setting turns of Active-X.
My setup doesn't interfere with normal operation. I just had to add one thing to the popup exception list (a financial site), and everything works fine.
Thank you Steve for the response. I read your post earlier about the changes that you have made in your JavaScript set up and I did make those changes. Normally when I enter the site several pop ups appear but this time only one. If this is all I receive I will be pleased. Thanks again!
Thats what i have, i love it.
Are you hitched yet?
Yeah, speaking of pop-ups that need not be blocked.
And what is the difference between Netscape and Firefox? They are both built on the same platform, except Netscape 7.x is hopelessly out of date. Netscape 8.x (with extra security stuff) recently came out, but their history of early releases is not good...I wouldn't trust it.
Whatever features of Nescape Firefox doesn't already have, I'll bet it will have them soon. But forget IE...it's beyond ridiculous. They can do just so much with it, since it's so tightly tied to Windows.
Firefox is not built out of Netsacape. AOL has owned the Netscape browser for a while, and they don't quite know what they were doing with it. Meanwhile, Firefox has continued to evolve, and now Netscape is using Firefox's rendering engine (Gecko), which is the thing that formats and displays Web pages.So, since they're both built on the same platform, Netscape borrowed a lot of the open source Firefox stuff, plus they added some new stuff. Undoubtedly, Firefox will have another major release that incorporates the best new ideas of Netscape, and add some more. While all of this is going on, IE is left in the dust, largely because it's tied so tightly into the Windows operating system.The last time I tested it without firewall software, Firefox alone would eliminate almost all of this site's popups and window hijacking, by itself. I haven't had a chance to play with Netscape 8.0 to see what it does, but there's no reason to think that it shouldn't do as well. But with firewall software, which you should always have if your computer is hooked to the Internet, I get no popups at all, and I have very little problem with malware.Netscape, until the latest release, has been Firefox Retarded. We'll have to see now the new Netscape works...
Just trying to keep the semi-geeks from getting more confused. I think I made them more confused.The bottom line is that I don't know how the new version of Netscape is superior to Firefox, but the older (more well-tested) version of Netscape (version 7) is absolutely inferior.
have you tried opera? I adore it. You can block all popups, but if there is one you want it has a little thing in the corner all you have to do is click it to open the popup. Ive never had problems with it, it rocks.
Firefox also has what you describe.
I tried Opera a l-o-n-g time ago, when there was a free version, long before Firefox exited. It didn't use up a lot of memory or disk space, was very fast, and it would let you open up a bunch of browser windows in one main window. Now it has tabbed browsing, like Firefox and Netscape, and tabbed browsing totally rules. Then Opera started charging for their browser, which made me lose interest, and didn't help them gain market share. It looks like they threw in the towel and made the Windows version free again, but they're charging for the cell phone version(s) of their browser.
Each of the browsers have a certain look and feel, but I'm not sure what recommends Opera over Firefox, or vice versa.
We know that IE is a total PoS. How does Apple's Web browser compare? (I think Opera and Firefox come in Macintosh versions).
Edit: Ugghhh....the free version of Opera has a permanent ad banner...you have to pay Opera to get rid of it.
Yea but you can make the ad banner at the top and very small. In opera it allow me to have a personal Bar, google toolbar (best thing in the WHOLE world) Its so fast, there are no popups and no spywear gets thru (with the back up of nortons firewall) I love the dowloads transfer page its a huge help when your doing lots of download. Like you said, the tabs are great. It lets me close all images on the webpage for faster loading, zoom in and out on the page, undo if i accidently close a page, Spell Checker (that i rarely use, but its there) And anything is better then IE. (Im not familiar with firefox if it has some of the stuff i listed)
Firefox has all of the features you mentioned, except for the ad banner. A cool feature if Firefox is a "lookup bar" that you can type stuff into, and search on it using Google or whatever, but you can add things to it. I don't recall if Wikipedia was part of the list or whether I added it, but I did add dictionary.com. Very, very convenient. Also, you can highlight a word or phrase on a Web page, right click, and do a search (default is Google...at least for me)...saves you from having to paste into the search bar, or from having to open a new window or tab for Google and pasting.Different pieces of software, even with similar capabilites, will each have their own look and feel. Which one a person prefers is a matter of taste. Think of Firefox as a brunette, Netscape as a blond, Opera as a redhead, and IE as an old bald guy.
The thing that gets me is why microsoft isnt doing anything to make people want to use IE. And why most people use it! I guess their just lazy and dont want to find something betterOh, and opera has downloadble skins that i adore has over 100 I tried to get firefox, but one look and i didnt like it (Strictly by looks lol)
how many damn threads are we gonna make about this... fuck!
lmao, took the words right out of my mouth
