IE popup blocker

[xortam]

Can anyone recommend a good popup window blocker for IE (running IE 6 on W2KAS)? No posts about alternative browsers please! I've used WebWasher in the past but it blocks vbb popups. Perhaps there's a way to configure WebWasher to allow vbb popups or at least on specific URLs; I haven't seen this ability. Will Google Toolbar do what I want?

[Jammrock]

Google Toolbar 2.0 does it very well. The toolbar will allow you to easily disable it when needed, too. And you get access to Google searches on the toolbar, which is cool.

Jammrock

[xortam]

Thanks Jammrock. How does Google TB distinct which popups are desirable?

[agallag]

I second the recommendation for the Google Toolbar. It's very effective.

[The PIT]

Got google toolbar installed at work doesn't seem to do a lot.

[xortam]

I read some of their documentation and it states that they manage a "whitelist" of sites where you can allow popups. I'll install it and see how well it does.

[xortam]

Google isn't installing because it says IE has browser helper objects disabled and it wants to enable them. Apparently these are COM components. I have ActiveX disabled; is that the setting that its complaining about? I don't want to weaken my security in order to run this tool.

P.S. Never mind. It looks like its the "Enable third-party browser extensions" option.

[Helevitia]

Google pop up blocker is disabled by holding down the ctrl key before clicking the link you wnat to go to. OF course, you can disable it all together by clicking the pop up blocker icon. It's very easy to use/enable/disable.

Dave

[xortam]

Checked out a popup site and it got blocked. I'll check out the popup allow feature if somebody wants to PM me. I didn't install the advanced options because of the spyware.

[Nicram]

Google toolbar work fine for me

[Gurm]

I use PopupCop. I might have used Google Toolbar, if it had been available at the time I was making a purchase decision. As a longtime user of Popup Stopper, I was upset when new types of popups came out and Popup Stopper didn't catch them - and it STILL doesn't, almost a year later.

Popup Cop catches EVERYTHING, it cleans my cookies in an automatic way, it provides an easy way to quickly disable/enable scripting, ActiveX, etc.

I like it a lot.

- Gurm

[Maggi]

how about http://www.privoxy.org/ ?

[SitFlyer]

Originally posted by Gurm
I use PopupCop. I might have used Google Toolbar, if it had been available at the time I was making a purchase decision. As a longtime user of Popup Stopper, I was upset when new types of popups came out and Popup Stopper didn't catch them - and it STILL doesn't, almost a year later.

Popup Cop catches EVERYTHING, it cleans my cookies in an automatic way, it provides an easy way to quickly disable/enable scripting, ActiveX, etc.

I like it a lot.

- Gurm

Same here

[Kooldino]

Google toolbar is pretty nice overall. My only real beef is how it "hangs" for a few seconds when a window would normally be popping up.

[Gurm]

Yep.

Oh, did I mention that Popupcop automates the process of allowing/disallowing ActiveX controls and auto-installing software?

- Gurm