On 20 Aug 2003 19:58:43 +0800, Aaron <aarontaycheehsien@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>"Thane@Cawdor.Net" <Me@nospam.com> wrote in
>news:mtf5kvc7gb3g7m11lr05q2u30cl6ss6gc6@4ax.com :
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>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:12:49 +1000, Gail Pamphilon
>> <gail@melbpc.thinkcarefully.org.au> wrote:
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>>>Quoth "marvin rosen" <raghead@worldnet.att.net>:
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>>>>Are there freeware popup blockers that do
>>>>not sit in the system tray?
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>>>Free Surfer, which I use, has an option to prevent its System Tray
>>>icon from appearing. It's a great popup blocker too - it works well.
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>> It is however VERY resource hungy....So depending on your system you
>> may want to consider something else
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>> PopupManager is what I'm trying now, so far, (3 days), so good and it
>> don't sit in the tray. http://www.endpopups.com/index.html
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>It's good no doubt, but it's blocking isnt instant, I observe a slight
>flicker, when the popup occurs, becomes very irriating for visiting sites
>that launch a dozen popups simultaneously.

I'm starting to notice that myself, a few days down the road, and yeah
it does get irritating.

Its a trade off as to whats more annoying, that or having Free Surfer
eat a minimum of 20meg of RAM...it a noticable hit to my system and I
would imagine crippling for an older/slower one.

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>>>http://www.emsproject.com/FS/Support.htm
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>Aaron