Section 7.4. Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)

7.4. Ad Subtract (Pop-up Stopper)

Nothing quite spoils the fun of the Web like pop-upsthose annoying miniature advertising windows that sprout in front of the Web page you're trying to read.

Safari, Mac OS X's Web browser, has a simple menu command for blocking pop-ups: Safari Block Pop-Up Windows. Nowadays, so does just about every other Web browser made for the MacFirefox, Netscape, Camino, and so on. In other words, you dont even need Ad Subtract.

The one exception, though, is Internet Explorer for Mac (a program that is no longer supported by Microsoft). If you can't bear to stop using Internet Explorer, use a shareware program like Pop-up Zapper (which you can download from the "Missing CD" page of www.missingmanuals.com) to kill off pop-ups.