Controling popups

yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com 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