I forget what originally brough Firefox to my attention, but once I tried it, I was sold. It completely blocks pop-ups, but you can allow them for individual sites if needed, and you can block images by location, like ad servers.
I had gotten some viruses simply by visiting web pages by something that was part of the html code that launched a vbscript "onload", so it runs in the background automatically.. and it also attached the virus code to every html file on my computer which I had to go in and edit out. Firefox blocks these kind of things.
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Date: 2004-06-27 05:59 am (UTC)I had gotten some viruses simply by visiting web pages by something that was part of the html code that launched a vbscript "onload", so it runs in the background automatically.. and it also attached the virus code to every html file on my computer which I had to go in and edit out. Firefox blocks these kind of things.