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I have been a very satisfied user of PopUp Killer by xFX Jumpstart for well over a year.

However, xFX Jumpstart has discontinued it, and support of it, for several reasons as they explain on their website. I have no quarrel with them over their decision as their reasons and a possible reserection as an open source project seem reasonable. They even suggest a competitive product on their website, which, unfortunately, will not work with Netscape (hence Mozilla, I presume).

I’m wondering if Loungers might be able to suggest a few, preferably free or low cost, alternatives, along with comments.

PS: Just a reminder to all you good folks South of Canada / North of Mexico, multiply your “low cost” by at least 1.6 for an estimate of our cost up here. Eg: $30.00 US comes close to $50.00 CDN, not quite so “low cost”.

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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Ken,
After trying a few progs, I have been using AdSubtract with very good results. It is very easy to use and you can individually set up sites (or lump them together) to block popups, ads, animations, Background images, Background music, referrals, cookies, Java scripts, and more. It cost me $19.95 (US) on a special offer and is well worth it.
You can check it out and get a trial download at http://www.adsubtract.com[/url%5D ( I edited this 3 times. I’ll get it right yet)
From that land south of Canada & north of Mexico……

Bob

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I agree that Ad/Subtract is an excellent popup killer as well as being an effective cookie manager too.
I highly recommend it having used it for more than two years.
The tech support is great too.
Jack

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Ken,

I have been using POW! from AnalogX for quite some time now and quite like it.

You have to “train” it to kill the pop-ups you want, but after it’s trained, you don’t need to worry about it.

To train it, you just open the POW interface and tell it to add the windows to the list, and it closes them. I can’t recall the last time I had a PopUp/PopUnder window open on me.

Best of all it’s $0 USD, and even in Canadian dollars, that’s affordable

And, if nothing else, look around AnalogX’s site. They have some great little utilities. Most are

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Bryan, I have to second your comments re AnalogX. He’s my kind of developer . His utilities are small, simple, elegant and work. And they’re affordable even in our lowly . Well worth a sticky beak.

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Here I was going to make a comment about the AUD being better that the CAD, and look what I found from http://www.xe.net[/url%5D

But AnalogX is top notch software.

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Well worth a sticky beak.
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Huh? Whats he say?

Bob

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You may be more familiar with “nosey parker”, you sticky beak, you? There’s a few more translations at Australian English Glossary from A to Zed
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(BTW, thanks for the question. I wanted give a useful link in my answer, and a quick Google led me to the site in Finland, of all places .)

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Gave the site a quick look. Wow !
I always thought you guys spoke English Have to do some cramming to get up to date.

Bob

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Great link (for us Yanks!), Tim. Every time I’ve heard Waltzing Matilda over the years, I’ve had to go Googling to find out what the heck they were singing.

There’s some amusing comparisons, like NARK, and so on….. On the very first page I learned I’ve been pronouncing “Aussie” incorrectly also.

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Thanks all for the suggestions and the Aussie Glossary.

I’ve downloaded POW and I’ll give it a try.
I’ve gotten through the “B’s” in the Aussie Glossary….Great language you’ve got there!!!

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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I use and really like Guard IE . Try it for free and it’s $30 to register. Besides blocking pop-ups, It can also clean out your cookies, temp internet files, and history when closing IE. And it guards against other nasty web things too.

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Hi there, I have been using pop up stopper for some time, I like it. http://www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html%5B/url%5D Download the free version, it works well enough for me.

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Hi Ken
I use a freeware product called Free Surfer which is here . Seems to work OK for me – it stops pop ups and puts the address in a list. You can then add this to a personalised list instructing Disable all Popups at this tite. The latest version comes with a ‘Washboard’ plug in which allows personalised cleaning of Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, Autocomplete entries, Typed URLs and Recent Document Folder.
Hope this helps.
Uh oh. Just noticed it says in bold that it works with IE. Sorry

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I used to use POW!, but have switched to NoAds – works with IE, Netscape, AOL and Opera… .
http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/%5B/url%5D

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Like sliverback, I have also been using Free Surver & thus far very pleased with it. As mentioned it is FREE .

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The latest edition of Woody’s Windows XP 3.03 newsletter just hit my mail, so it may not yet be up on the web site. In it he recommends a program called EndPopUps. From his description, it sounds pretty good, although the site may be swamped. I couldn’t connect just now.

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BigAl,
Just saw this myself. When you link take the ‘index.cgi’ off the end. Should load OK then.

Joe

--Joe

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Hi Al

Try the manual approach as described in endpopups in General Windows Solutions.
It worked for me……twice. Removing “index.cgi” didn’t.

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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I was finally able to access the site using http://www.endpopups.com (without the “/index.cgi” – which now gives a permissions error). Early today I couldn’t get anywhere at the site. Download was very quick.

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Hi, Ken ~

Removing the ‘index.cgi’ forces the page to automatically go to the default index page.

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Hi Bruce

Yep.. so I tried it with this particular url after the link didn’t work and and neither did backing up to the “root” of the url……not this time anyway….maybe it was just coincidence!

PS: Like your mug shot!!

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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