<p>:confused: There's a couple free pop-up blockers out there and I don't know which one is the best. What do you reccomend?</p>
<p>first, I would recommend changing your internet broswer to one of the following...
Firefox - <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.getfirefox.com</a>
Opera – <a href="http://www.opera.com%5B/url%5D">www.opera.com</a>
K-Meleon - <a href="http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/%5B/url%5D">http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/</a>
Mozilla - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mozilla.org/</a>
Netscape - <a href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp%5B/url%5D">http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp</a>
---or update your internet explorer to the newest version....
----this step will dramatically lower the number of pop-ups....</p>
<p>here are some pop-up blockers...
Google Toolbar - <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/index.html</a>
NoAds - <a href="http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/%5B/url%5D">http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/</a>
PopUp Stopper - <a href="http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html</a>
Privoxy - <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.privoxy.org/</a>
Proxomitron - <a href="http://www.proxomitron.info/%5B/url%5D">http://www.proxomitron.info/</a></p>
<p>----I personally think google toolbar is the best.....NoAds is also great, it allows to customize your pop-up blocking....
-----I think your internet company may also have pop-blockers too.....</p>
<p>I use firefox my self and I never get any pop-ups.......</p>
<p>any other opinions? :p</p>
<p>google toolbar logs all the places you visit or search for and reports that, along with your computer id number back to google :) enjoy!</p>
<p>I use MSN toolbar.</p>
<p>Have no fear, your privacy is not compromised when using the toolbar.
Yes, Google does keep a record of your search history.
Google collects all this information even if you enter a query directly into Google.com without using the Toolbar......
There is a function called "page rank"...which show you the popularity of a webpage....google collects the sites you have visited to provide this service.
All these information are not personally identifiable....so really,there is no harm done to you.
Besides, google will give you a big warning when you try to install the toolbar ......and you can disable page rank pretty easily.....</p>
<p>well I installed the google toolbar :D. Thanks for everyone's help.</p>
<p>You could also use: <a href="http://www.avantbrowser.com%5B/url%5D">www.avantbrowser.com</a></p>
<p>Avant browser is pretty sweet</p>
<p>I <3 Firefox. Tabbed browsing makes my life SO much easier.</p>
<p>I refuse to change from IE don't ask why I'll scare you :eek:</p>
<p>Then scare me....:>)</p>
<p>because I've had IE for so long and it's like my "safe place". It may be unreliable, but it's always unreliable. I depend on it being unreliable. It's like my friend. We have a relationship :eek:</p>
<p>An IE fetish....</p>
<p>some website only looks right in IE. and some dynamic dHTML scripts only works in IE and not firefox. </p>
<p>i love firefox though.</p>
<p>I've decided I must give up IE. That's why I'm doing a trial of Firefox. I've decided that after a week I don't like it, I'll uninstall. But if it's as great as everyone says, I'll keep it. Do you reccomend using thunderbird?</p>
<p>You are giving up your friend!!!???</p>
<p>Anyway, try avant while you are at it and opera, they are some good browsers too....as for thunderbird....try it and you might like it....</p>
<p>Yes unfortenately. I do LOVE IE. But saying this computer doesn't have much virus protection (my father :mad:) I need the most stable option. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>opera and thunderbird are packages which include email client and newsgroup and other features. if you're only looking for a web browser, firefox is the browser-only version. i don't really like opera because it seems to take up too much memory and CPU resources.</p>
<p>firefox owns all other browsers. period.</p>
<p>IE is tied very closely to the OS which leaves it vulnerable to attacks. Go Firfox all the way!</p>