Stop annoying popup windows with the popSmarts Popup Killer! popSmarts is designed to block only the annoying popup windows, without affecting your normal surfing!
popSmarts is the only popup killer to create an explorer bar inside Internet Explorer, giving you a natural interface that isn't crowded into a single toolbar!
Take a look at some of the features:
- Stops ALL unwanted popup and pop-under windows from Internet Explorer.
- Fully functional right out of the box! 98% of normal surfing requires no additional adjustment!
- Whitelist and Blacklist features allow for infinite flexibility to match your surfing habits!
- ALL blocked popups can be re-opened by simply double-clicking on an icon.
- Reduce your bandwidth! No popups mean less data your computer has to download!
- popSmarts uses the safe and secure Explorer Bar technology from Microsoft.
popSmarts Feature List
- Stops ALL unwanted popup and pop-under windows from Internet Explorer, including sneaky windows that try to load when a website is exited.
- Popups, pop-unders, load windows, unload windows, timed windows, rollover windows, and more. popSmarts will stop any unwanted new window without disrupting your normal surfing.
- Fully funtional right out of the box! 98% of normal surfing requires no additional ajustment!
popSmarts really is smart! It knows which popus to keep and which ones to block. Other popup killers rely on elaborate blacklist/whitelist information that you have to set up! Birnam Labs created popSmarts to eliminate annoyances, and we thought that was one of them! popSmarts doesn't require any setup before using!
Allows for completely normal web browsing! Desired popups are allowed to open without any additional work!
Many sites do have useful popup windows -- they aren't all ads! Other popup killers require you to click twice to open a desired link, or hold down the shift or ctrl keys when you click a desired link. popSmarts doesn't require you to alter your normal surfing habits at all, and allows you to open a link to a new window without any additional steps. popSmarts also allows you to use Internet Explorer's standard methods to open a regular link in a new window, by either holding down the shift key while clicking a link, or by selecting "Open In a New Window" from the context menu opened on the link.
Contains powerful whitelist and blacklist features that are fully configurable to create infinite flexibility to match your surfing habits!
As with any good intelligent software, popSmarts can be taught to perform even better! Using the whitelist and blacklist features, you can create rules for popSmarts to follow, allowing you to further refine or modify popSmarts' existing behavior. Rules can be added manually, or can be generated automatically using the information that is retreived from blocked popups.
- ALL blocked popups can be re-opened by simply double-clicking on an icon. Never have to worry about missing a window!
When a popup is blocked by popSmarts, an icon is created to represent that popup window and is displayed in a configurable list in the main popSmarts window. If the popup window was mistakenly blocked, the window can be easily recreated by double-clicking on the icon!
- Reduce your bandwidth! Every blocked popup means one less HTML page, loaded with images or more, that will clog up your connection!
popSmarts (unless configured otherwise) will only download the bare minimum of a popup window's data to retreive enough information to be able to re-create it. This means your browser doesn't have to load images, flash movies, active-X controls, or other bandwidth-hogging data that might appear in the popup window, and can greatly reduce the bandwidth created by a popup window, leaving your internet connection free for information you really wanted!
- Has as configurable log which stores complete information about popSmarts' activity.
All popSmarts activity is recorded in a log, and can be viewed at any time. popSmarts comes with several options that allow you to configure the size of the log and how it treats new data.
- Contains special guard features that allow intentional windows to be opened from Flash movies.
Many websites use flash movies to generate desired popup windows. In order to open the window from flash, the movie must pass a script to the browser that defines the new window. Most popup killers see this script as an automatic, unwanted popup window, and will block it! popSmarts is smart enough to recognize when a user is navigating from a flash movie, and won't interfere with your surfing!
- popSmarts exists as a flexible, easy to use interface that can be minimized out of your way!
Unlike many other popup killers, popSmarts utilizes a complete, friendly, and easy to use user-interface that integrates directly into Internet Explorer. Other popup killers exist separate from the browser, in the windows tray (on the task bar, next to your clock), and others exist as cramped and confusing toolbars. Tray-driven applications lack intuitive controls because they aren't even part of the browser, and a user has to switch back and forth from the browser window to the tray icon to interact with the application. Toolbar-driven applications confuse users by trying to cram too many functions into a very limited space -- toolbars should not be used to house an entire user-interface! The popSmarts interface attaches itself into the Internet Explorer window, and contains a full, graphic interface while never having to leave the browser! The interface can be stretched as large as is necessary, or can be minimized so that it takes up no more room than the status bar!
popSmarts uses the safe and secure Explorer Bar technology from Microsoft.
Other popup killers use BHO technology (Browser Helper Object), but this technology allows a program to run automatically even if you can't see it. BHOs can be adware, spyware, or even a computer virus. A virus using BHO technology can completely destroy your computer! Some experts recommend using the Internet Explorer option to turn off all 3rd party applications. This won't affect popSmarts, which uses the much safer Explorer Bar technology. Birnam Labs recommends using BHOCop to choose which BHOs you want to run, and which you want deleted.