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Old 12-21-2011, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeod View Post
It's an add-on to Firefox, called Adblock Plus. I don't know if it's available for IE or other browsers. I haven't used IE in many years. Yes, I don't get any pop-ups. If a site uses pop-ups, I get a window asking if I want to allow pop-ups on that site for that visit and I can always add an exception to allow pop-ups for a site all the time. But I don't get advertising pop-ups at all.

I also use another add-on called NoScript which prevents any site from running a script. It is a bit more intrusive in that a lot of sites won't function normally unless you allow certain scripts to be run. But the program will show a list of scripts and allow you to allow one or more to be run.
Thanks for the info. Sounds like what I've been looking for. I hate popups and ads but other programs have slowed my computer so I dropped them. I always use Firefox, so no problem. Do you download the program from Firefox?
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