I’m loving Firefox 3, the new version of the popular and free Internet exploring browser.

I’ve found Internet pages open quicker, the interface much more user friendly and the experience much better than Apple Safari or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Along with other new features one of the great things about Firefox 3 is that it has stronger filters and protection against phishing sites, cookies, and other tools that can compromise security and privacy.

Well worth a download, click the link below:

For years I’ve blocked pop-up adverts from loading while browsing the Internet by using the Firefox web browser and ticking the ‘block pop-up’ option with FireFox preferences:

1) Go to Firefox Preferences


2) Under the ‘Content’ tab, tick the Block pop-up windows box.


And no surprise…. the pop-up’s stop. So out of interest, about five years after first discovering Firefox and its pop-up capabilities in late 2002 I turned off pop-up blocking to see if websites still pop-up annoying adverts…. and low and behold a few minutes of surfing around the net a previously blocked annoying spam pop-up pops up and says….