How do we get rid of pop-ups?

Question

I know to press the esc button, but sometimes that doesn't work. Is there anything else? I've already got Mozilla.

Answer 1

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There are several types of popups so it's important that one know which one you want to get rid of. The most common are windows that pop up over (or pop up and then get placed under) a Web page when it is opened (or sometimes when closed or some action is taken). These are generally controlled by Javascript code in the requested Web page. There are several ways to stop most, if not all, of them:



Turn Javascript execution off. While effective, since many pages use Javascript for display enhancement purposes today doing this will greatly diminish your browsing experience.


Use a software program. There are many software programs that basically sit between your Internet connection and the Web browser. They identify incoming Javascript designed to call up Web addresses as pop ups or pop unders and disable that code or simply set it aside instead of sending it to the browser. Most of these programs install themselves as part of the browser. There are far too many to list here. Please use a search such as:http://www.google.com/search?q=popup%20ad%20blocker


Install a browser bar that includes a pop up blocker and does other useful things as well. The Google browser bar for Internet Explorer allows you to easily search the Google site and, as a bonus, has a form filler and pop up blocker included in the options. (I use this bar all the time and find it very handy.) There are other toolbars as well which you can find with a search; be careful, however, some install "spyware." For their toolbar see the Google site at: http://toolbar.google.com/


Use a browser that has pop up blocking built into the browser code. The Mozilla-based browsers have this capability and have the advantage of being free. There are others as well. And, the next version of Internet Explorer is rumored to include such code. You can find information about the Mozilla browsers at: http://www.mozilla.org/


Wait a bit. The SP2 update to Windows XP version of Internet Explorer is said to have pop up blocking built into it.
If the pop ups you are concerned about are little grey boxes that pop up at random times while you are on the Internet, that's a function of Microsoft Messenger and you can turn those off if you choose to. Follow this procedure for Windows XP:


Click Start->Control Panel


Click Performance and Maintenance


Click Administrative Tools


Double click Services


Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"


Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.


Click the STOP button.


Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar


Click OK
Be advised that if you are on a local network where the administrator needs to send out messages this will prevent those messages from coming in so use with care.

Answer 2

Alt-F4, presuming you're on a windows machine. Firefox has a good blocker, as would Safari, on a mac. apple-w on a mac is faster than popups can come up, and if they get too aggressive, apple-q kills the whole program, an ability apparently not paralleled on Win-boxes. I suspedt linux machines do have the same function, though I don't know the key shortcut.

Answer 3

I'm IE and doubt that anything anybody has suggested will work with Mozilla. Yahoo is IE.

I'm surprised you haven't asked the ? in a Mozilla forum.

Answer 4

Tools - Internet Options - Privacy (tab) - Check Block Popups option
Also do this

Tools - Internet options - Security - select internet or intranet as per ur req - click on custom level - Enable use pop up blocker option

Answer 5

With a yahoo toolbar u get a popup blocker.When u enable this it blocks the popups for u.

Answer 6

Use spyware such as Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spybot, AVG, avast!Anitvirus, to name a few. you can also go to your toolbar and select to disable pop-ups.

Answer 7

scan ur comp with ad-aware, remove the junk, turn on popup blocker on firefox

Answer 8

if u get earthlink u never have to get a pop up unless u want to

Answer 9

Get panda anti virus.

Answer 10

install pop-up blocker