Please can anyone advice me as to how I can stop those wretched pop-up ads from appearing all over the place on my screen? I have set my pop-up blocker on both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer but still the darn things appear. Any advise will be gratefully received. Noreen

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 06:18:19 +0800, "Noreen" <noreen.coombes@bigpond.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >Please can anyone advice me as to how I can stop those wretched pop-up ads >from appearing all over the place on my screen? I have set my pop-up blocker >on both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer but still the darn things >appear. > >Any advise will be gratefully received. FF has some extensions for that purpose. Since I usually don't get them, I presume they are from one specific site that has a good system to push the popups so you may have to use some other means like editing the host file. Denis -- Denis Beauregard - généalogiste émérite (FQSG) Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ French in North America before 1722 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ Sur cédérom à 1780 - On CD-ROM to 1780

Noreen wrote: > Please can anyone advice me as to how I can stop those wretched pop-up ads > from appearing all over the place on my screen? I have set my pop-up blocker > on both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer but still the darn things > appear. > > Any advise will be gratefully received. Be hereby reminded that some sites require pop-ups -- that is, the site content is provided a sort of pop-up -- and if you completely disable pop-ups, those sites are a waste of your time. I believe the Ellis Island site is one of 'em. FWIW and ICYC. Cheryl

Noreen wrote: > Please can anyone advice me as to how I can stop those wretched pop-up ads > from appearing all over the place on my screen? I have set my pop-up blocker > on both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer but still the darn things > appear. > > Any advise will be gratefully received. > > Noreen > > To block *ads* in FireFox, there's Adblock Plus, available from the Mozilla site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/extensions/ Sleepy Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson