Controling popups
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yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Aug 6 08:56:01 2003
> Hi Team:
> If you are interested in controling popups now. Switch to Galeon!!
> Mozilla does have popup control but only for PC users, and that is not
> us. No, of course not, we know better.
>
> Instead of waiting, complaining, crying or begging, just switch to
> Galeon which is part of the standard distribution. It is available in
> Gnome and should be available under KDE.
>
> Under the Settings Menu, select Preferences. Find the Advanced Tab,
> this reveals four icons one of which is called Filtering. Select
> Filtering and uncheck or unselect the Allow popups option under the
> Filtering section of the Preferences page.
>
Mozilla does have effective popup control. You can also team Privoxy with
your browser to block connections to particular sites and suppress ads on
a very granular basis. Privoxy is in the distro and set up with most of
the filters you'll want already in place.
George