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Feb 2 2004, 1:50 pm
What kind of pop-up stopper do you use?(if you have one). I'm just concerned.

I use PanicWare Pop-Up Stopper.

-Kappa the Imp
Feb 2 2004, 1:51 pm
Mozilla has a built-in pop-up stopper, as does the Mozilla based "Netscape" browser does.

~Kujila
Feb 2 2004, 1:53 pm
Google search bar on my IE, mozilla popup stopper on ThunderBird.
Feb 2 2004, 2:49 pm
Alt-F4.

It has a 99% success ratio. The 1% is when I press it one too many times, and close IE. Of course, if a website has enough pop-ups to make me do that, it's probably not worth looking at anyway.
Feb 2 2004, 3:16 pm
In response to Garthor
What about the percent of the time when it's one of those extremely annoying popups that opens another as you close it?
Feb 2 2004, 3:29 pm
In response to Jon88
That is included within the 1%. I'm fast with the alt-F4 keys.
Feb 2 2004, 10:18 pm
In response to Kujila
Actually it's more like the other way around... Mozilla is based on Netscape. And Mozilla Firebird is based on Mozilla. =)

I use Firebird's built-in blocker. It rules.
Feb 2 2004, 10:33 pm
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Actually it's more like the other way around... Mozilla is based on Netscape.

Right. And Unix is based on Linux.
Feb 2 2004, 11:53 pm
In response to Air Mapster
as i understand it, at one point Netscape was based on the Mozilla engine because that group proved to be better at browser making than Netscape was... though this is all defunct now that Netscape is dead

(your mileage may vary)
Feb 3 2004, 9:08 am
In response to Garthor
Garthor wrote:
That is included within the 1%. I'm fast with the alt-F4 keys.;

CTRL+W is much better.
Feb 3 2004, 10:35 am
I use the "disable active scripting" option.
Feb 3 2004, 1:03 pm
In response to Crispy
Go download Netscape 7, and then go download Mozilla 1.6.

They look and function almost identically. Aside from that, when I unistalled Netscape 7 and installed Mozilla 1.6, the bookmarks remained in my Bookmark area.

:)

~Kujila
Feb 3 2004, 1:07 pm
In response to Gughunter
If I ever made a browser, I'd call it "differently enable active scripting."
Feb 3 2004, 8:55 pm
In response to digitalmouse
Eh. I did know that. Somehow I got turned around.

There's no need to be so sarcastic about it, Air Mapster. A simple correction would have sufficed.
Feb 4 2004, 5:08 am
In response to Crispy
When in doubt, assume an "implicit smiley." :)
Feb 4 2004, 1:08 pm
In response to Gughunter
So that's how you always manage to be so upbeat! :)
Feb 5 2004, 12:14 am
In response to Gughunter
And so Gughunter reveals the secret to his success. =P

I tend to use smilies a lot, as you may have noticed... =D So I guess I unconsciously expect other people to do the same thing when that's what they mean. It avoids a lot of confusion.

The short verson: Implicit = bad. ;-D
Feb 5 2004, 3:31 am
In response to Crispy
:)
Feb 5 2004, 8:09 am
In response to Crispy
Even with emoticons, the waters can be murky. I've been recently told by someone that my habitual :P is being interpreted (by one person at least) as me sticking out my tongue in mockery, when I do it to show I'm being silly.
Feb 5 2004, 7:58 pm
In response to Hedgemistress
True. Which is why I sometimes use a traditional smiling smiley (except like =) instead of :-) because I think it looks better), or put a wink on it, like: ;-P
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