Internet Explorer 6.05, Pop-Up Ad Blocking in XP SP2

[Nomad559]

IE 6.05, Pop-Up Ad Blocking to Debut in Windows XP SP2
 
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/40785/40785.html 

You won't need to wait for Longhorn in late 2005 to get pop-up
ad blocking in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft
will release IE 6.05 as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2
(SP2), which is due in the first half of 2004. Whether IE 6.05
will include some of the other new IE features, such as the
new download manager, found in the Microsoft Professional
Developers Conference (PDC) 2003 Longhorn build is unclear.


Here Is a screen capture I took of Internet Explorer 6.05 In
Longhorn.

http://www.boomspeed.com/damon559/LH3.JPG

Longhorn 4051
http://www.boomspeed.com/damon559/LH4.JPG

[Don_G]

1. I Noticed It

I also noticed where Longhorn will be issued without a bundled browser and will take up more memory than ever.

[Deja Q]

3. Browsr to be utterly integrated and note there are no more IE updates for

current Windows OSes.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1368390,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 for more on Longhorn. Which should be called Bighog...

[Don_G]

5. They're Considering The Change To An Integrated Browser

Link: http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5103226.html?tag=nefd_lede

[LARED]

2. I use google toolbar to block popups

It works great.

[Deja Q]

4. That's a change

MS said they wouldn't create any more IE updates for windows. (obviously they want people to be forced to upgrade. !^@%#$ing corporate fascists they are...)

Great, XP servicepacks are gigantic to begin with. XP SP 2 is probably going to be 250MB, I reckon...

[saline]

6. Bleh

Why would you use Internet Explorer anyway? You need to jump on the Mozilla Firebird bandwagon. Built in pop up blocking, tabbed browsing so you only need one browser open at a time to view many pages, built on Gecko the fastest rendering engine (although you likely won't notice the difference), fully customizable including skins and software extentions. Built in searching makes finding what you're looking for super easy(what you search with is customizable as well).

It's open source, no big companies (except Netscape kind of, they're out of business now if I remember correctly). The karma of open source is awesome. Mozilla stuff is very stable, I've had firebird crash on me maybe once in something like four months of very frequent use.

In addition, and this is one of my favorite parts (they don't mention it because it's kinda geek-tastic), there is no install you just download the zip, extract it into a folder and run the exe. If you want to get rid of it you just delete the folder, it never touches the registry so nothing is left behind.

On top of all this their Icons are just so much cooler.

I use their email client too (thunderbird) it works well but is still very much in development.

Leave Micro$oft! Join the Mozilla revolution, you'll never look back.

Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org

To get firebird (which I prefer to full Mozilla), just scroll down it's on the left side.

For more information about firebird you can check their site, everything they say is true I promise, no propaganda:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why/

Repent and save yourselves the browser wars are not over, they're just beginning! Mozilla will stomp IE.

[Gman]

7. Gee, what a concept!

"...it never touches the registry so nothing is left behind."