Any recommendations for a good pop-up blocker?

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » May 21, 2004, 6:50 pm

I use to use this one on my old comp, but they updated it and now it's worse than it was before.

I'm tempted to try yahoo toolbar but I heard bad things about it somewhere.

Anyone have a suggestion ?

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » May 21, 2004, 6:55 pm

yahoo likes to do some sneaky things, small but sneaky
get google toolbar and be very happy

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 21, 2004, 7:05 pm

Google toolbar works great. It's free. It's easy.

http://toolbar.google.com/

Spankes · Post by **Spankes** » May 21, 2004, 7:06 pm

http://www.avantbrowser.com

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » May 21, 2004, 7:13 pm

Cool, thanks guys, I just installed the google one

If somethin turns out funny, I'm gonna try that one you recommended psnak

Durew · Post by **Durew** » May 21, 2004, 7:22 pm

Gotta love the Google toolbar

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 21, 2004, 7:51 pm

Clatis wrote:Cool, thanks guys, I just installed the google one

If somethin turns out funny, I'm gonna try that one you recommended psnak

Avant is more than a popup blocker. It's a whole different web browser. Ability to block popups is just one feature.

Zygar_ Cthulhukin · Post by **Zygar_ Cthulhukin** » May 21, 2004, 8:49 pm

Avant > all

Stalker Vacio · Post by **Stalker Vacio** » May 21, 2004, 9:11 pm

Once you go Avant, you never go back.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 22, 2004, 12:45 am

Only thing to remember about Avant is.. Exit it on occasion. I have 6-7 or so sites I have tabbed at all times. It doesn't appear to do well when it comes to memory management. I exited out and freed more than 300MB memory.

Proctus · Post by **Proctus** » May 22, 2004, 12:54 am

Mozilla here =p

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » May 22, 2004, 3:43 am

can you drag favorites around right in the drop down menu in avant yet?

Mak · Post by **Mak** » May 22, 2004, 5:08 am

kyoukan wrote:can you drag favorites around right in the drop down menu in avant yet?

Yes.

Durew · Post by **Durew** » May 22, 2004, 11:26 am

Regarding Avant.. was looking at their homepage trying to figure out what kind of resources it uses. Just trying to compare it to IE, is it faster?

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » May 22, 2004, 12:02 pm

Firefox > Avant.

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » May 22, 2004, 12:24 pm

Avant is just a shell for IE.

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » May 22, 2004, 2:12 pm

I just downloaded the avant browser just to try it out, and this thing is awesome. So far I like it a lot, wish i found out about it sooner =)

Menelaos · Post by **Menelaos** » May 22, 2004, 2:22 pm

MyIE2 is a pretty nice shell for IE as well. Has a lot of features including a BOss Key that lets you hide the entire browser in a split second without the minimize time! hehe Alt + ~ is your friend!!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » May 23, 2004, 5:18 am

google bar is pretty decent so far. As far as Yahoo...well, I installed the IM app and got a shitload of links and other harmless, yet annoying, garbage. FUCK THEM.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 23, 2004, 12:13 pm

Avant also has an ad blocker. Mine was turned off so I only recently discovered it!

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 23, 2004, 2:08 pm

It seems the only big difference between any of these browsers (especially that Firefox one) and IE is Tabbed Browsing. The rest is equalized by a 10 second install of the google toolbar.

The Avant IE shell for Tabbed browsing does seem useful and well put together.

The MX700 mouse has two buttons on the side of it by your thumb which rock for going forward and backward while browsing so I don't need the extra mouse functionality although I suppose it's a nice feture if you haven't discovered the best mouse available yet.

Flash animation filter may be the key to why I change to Avante due to Kwons retarded huge flash sigs. I'd donate to Avante if they made an animated gif filter that you could set a max size with. Maybe the next version of google toolbar will have that option.

Full IE compatibility..I'd hope so seeing as it's a shell (so you MS haters aren't really showing the man who's boss!

Records cleaner: that's a nice feature. I hate it when the folks come to visit and the drop down URL shows some shady URLS.

Skins: who really cares? If you want skins, get windowblinds. DinksDX Blue is a great skin.

http://skins2.wincustomize.com/grayhaze ... X_Blue.jpg

Taking tabbed browsing from my taskbar to within the browser app is a more efficient way of doing things. The grouping function shows promise as well.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » May 23, 2004, 4:17 pm

Firefox is faster than IE imho.. WAY faster.

Durew · Post by **Durew** » May 23, 2004, 7:30 pm

Thanks Winnow, thats what I was looking for

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » May 24, 2004, 12:34 pm

when people at work are having bizarre problems with their computers one thing we look for is if they have the Google toolbar. Most of the time the probems are resolved when we remove the toolbar. Now, that is at work. At home I use it and have no problem with it. I also use Free Surfer to kill popups.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 24, 2004, 2:05 pm

Bubba Grizz wrote:when people at work are having bizarre problems with their computers one thing we look for is if they have the Google toolbar. Most of the time the probems are resolved when we remove the toolbar. Now, that is at work. At home I use it and have no problem with it. I also use Free Surfer to kill popups.

Don't listen to Bubba! I haven't heard of google toolbar causing any issues.

Follow this link and scan your computer to see what the real probles are on your computer:

http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp

That's the best free scanner I've found. It finds more crap than anything else including Search and Destroy, etc.