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Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web advertisements
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Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web advertisements
Oh thank god...i know i can speak for just about everyone saying that running the IE browser is like swimming in a sea of pop ups!
I've been using the Google toolbar for two days now. It blocks popups just fine.
It's a step in the right direction, but quite a bit late....go check mozilla and leave the pop-ups behind forever...
true if you are using IE then you can just use the new google toolbar and it will block pop-ups already.
Or you could switch to the newest, fastest, badest browser out there...MozillaFirebird
Wow, you mean Microsoft has yet another innovative idea? Oh wait! Its already been done. lol, Galeon and Konqueror are just two examples already running intigrated pop-up blocking. lol, sorry, just had to give M$ a quick bashing again..... But that will certainly be nice for M$ users. The thing that kinda annoys me though is all these updates seem to work only with Windows XP. To me this is another way for them to entice users to upgrade to another version of windoze. But, enough of my ranting and raving, at least there will be less popups for XP users!
Dave
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Originally posted here by NorthernLytes
.Oh thank god...i know i can speak for just about everyone saying that running the IE browser is like swimming in a sea of pop ups!
wow, a pop-up blocker. thats an interesting idea right there....i should have thought of it. Check your search engine fan!
Get a life Kosher. Thats worse then all my posts!
Just download an implement the GOOGLE toolbar (with popup blocker) it hasn't let but 2 ads by in about 3 weeks. It is very reliable.
Adiz
I think this is just vapour... there is no way M$ would put any kind of ad-blocker into IE while people will pay them to keep it out - which they will.
Seriously though, M$ has a lot of interests in ads, with the content providers (especially MSN), and would stand to lose out if pop-ups or other ads were blocked by the majority of users.
Seeing as the majority of users use IE, they aren't going to do it.
Sure, there are users who use Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon etc (like me), but we are in the minority. The truth is, that most users do not realise that there are even popup blockers available for IE / Windows.
Slarty
I am going to stick with mozilla I have been using it for the past 7 months. I highly doubt that microsoft will even come close to being on the same level as mozilla and Mozilla Firebird
I know its been said at least a half dozen times already... but GOOGLE TOOLBAR!
I've blocked 7210 ads so far... pic included for "proof".