Hate Pop-ups?

Browsing the net is sometimes really frustrating with all those ads popping up on the screen. So here’s some information that will help you solve this kind of issues. I’ve written down list of widely used program that will help prevent pop-up, pop-under, or other types of advertising on the net.

Microsoft Internet users:
For those who are using Internet Explorer 6.0, there’s a pop-up blocker included in the browser and all you have to do is to enable it. If you wish to enable to pop-up blocker, follow these steps.
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Privacy tab
5. At the bottom of the Privacy tab you should have a Pop-up Blocker section. If you wish pop-ups to be blocked check the "Block pop-ups" option. You can also set additional settings such as disabling the sound when a pop-up is blocked or disable the information bar displayed when a pop-up is blocked by clicking the Settings button.

And for those who are using the earlier versions of internet explorer, here’s what you can try. You can use a google toolbar because it includes free pop-up blocker. Or, there are lots of third party software that you can use that can help you prevent pop-ups from occurring.

PanicWare Pop-up Stopper : http://www.panicware.com/
PopUp Cop: http://www.popupcop.com/
NoAds: http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds
Smasher: http://www.popupstop.com/

Firefox users:
Firefox includes its own pop-up blocker. If you need to block pop-ups from coming out, here’s what you have to do:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Web features button on the left hand side of the Options window.
5. By default this feature should be enabled if you wish to disable the feature, uncheck "Block Popup Windows." If you have allowed popups on a site you wish to now block you can also click "Allowed sites" in this window and remove any sites you wish to block any popup on.
6. Or you can disable pop-ups from any browser plu-ins. Here’s how…Open Mozilla Firefox
7. In the URL field type "about:config" and press enter.
8. This should open the Firefox config window.
9. Right-click on a black portion of the window and click "New" and then "Integer"
10. For the preference name type "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and click Ok.
11. For the value type "2"

Then locate the “privacy.popups.firstTime” option and its also in about:config screen and change the value of this to “false.

Netscape users:
Netscape 7.1 or higher has the pop-up blocker enabled already by default and you can access its settings by doing the following steps.
1. Open Netscape
2. Click Tools
3. Click Popup Manager
4. Within the Popup Manager you can adjust the settings of how you want popups to be blocked.

Opera users:
Same thing with Opera, pop-up blocker is already enabled by default. To access its settings, follow these steps.
1. Open Opera
2. Click Tools
3. Click Quick preferences
4. Within the Quick preferences menu you will have options to "Open all pup-ups", "Open pop-ups in background", "Block unwanted pop-ups", and "Block all pop-ups."
So there are ways on how we can prevent those pop-ups. All you have to do is follow these easy steps. I hope that you find this article helpful.