[dba-Tech] Pop-up stoppers

John Bartow john at winhaven.net
Fri Oct 24 15:14:37 CDT 2003


how did firebird work with Shamil's link?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
> Tapia
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:20 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pop-up stoppers
> 
> 
> I hate that thing.  whenever I troubleshoot anyone's pc here at work and 
> I find that thing I immediatly uninstall it and replace it with 
> popupmanager.  For one they get less clutter in IE, and 2nd it doesn't 
> distract w/ a bunch of useless buttons etc.  If you really like 
> searching from your browser directly into Google, try Mozilla Firebird, 
> it's one of the default plug-ins.  I use a series of plugins to date. 
> Google, alltheweb, Ebay even IMDB and dictionary and thesaurus.com  :) 
> you select type your word and you're off, it doesn't call home or run 
> statistics off your bandwidth like the googlebar and the browser kills 
> the popups ... I've mentioned before on the list Mozilla Firebird is my 
> default browser and I RARELY ever need to use IE for anything, in fact I 
> would argue that I possibly use it than 5 times a month (IE that is).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Porter, Mark wrote:
> 
> > Google search bar works great also
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Francisco H Tapia [mailto:my.lists at verizon.net]
> >>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:12 AM
> >>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> >>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Pop-up stoppers
> >>
> >>
> >>Currently I use Mozilla Firebird, and it has a built in popup 
> >>stopper, 
> >>but before I switched I was using Pop Up Manager (avail at 
> >>www.endpopups.com )  It is the best IE pop up stopper I've 
> >>seen yet for IE.
> >>
> >>John Bartow wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>Which free pop-up stoppers do you use?
> >>>
> >>>I use Norton's (included in Internet Security) but am 
> >>
> >>looking for a free one
> >>
> >>>for my clients.
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>-Francisco
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Francisco
> 
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