I just switched over to Firefox & I don't get pop-ups & when there is an AD on a page it just comes in as an F so you can load it ot not. There are 1600 + extensions for Firefox. Definitely worth a try. --- James Paul Manley Jesus.is.healing.my.cancer at gmail.com Prostate Cancer Patient Albuquerque, New Mexico 87121 I have advanced prostate Cancer with a Gleason rating of 9 and I am convinced that the Lord Jesus Christ will heal me as a testimony to his love. Jim Manley's Photoshop Elements Page http://www.geocities.com/jim_p_manley/index.html Jim Manley's Photo Retouching Page http://web.mac.com/jamespmanley On Aug 27, 2006, at 5:35 AM, gooddog at interlync.com wrote: > Thank you very much. I'll try Firefox and see how it works, and > I'll check out PithHelmet. > > Has Safari fallen from favor among the Mac community? If so, why? > > By the way, how do you pronounce your last name? You share the same > last name as he author of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Gaston Leroux. > > > On Aug 26, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Alexandre Leroux wrote: > >> Related, make sure you know about or use PithHelmet... >> http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php >> It's an ad-blocker for Safari. >> >> I mostly switched to Firefox, but PithHelmet is a good Safari friend! >> >> I have no idea why your prefs would change by themselves however. >> >> Cheers, >> Alex >> >> http://slashgeo.org >> >> >> On 8/26/06, gooddog at interlync.com <gooddog at interlync.com> wrote: >> > Folks; >> > >> > No matter how many times I set my Safari preferences to block pop- >> > ups, at some point it turns itself off. Has anyone had this >> > experience, and is there a fix to it? >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > iBook mailing list >> > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook >> > >> > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and >> random stuff: >> > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> iBook mailing list >> iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984