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Pop-up Killer Review

 
 

Last updated: Sep 9, 2005



A quote from Crazy Browser's site:

Crazy Browser is a powerful Web browser. It provides many features that make surfing the web more comfortable and less confusing. It has the ability to open multiple sites and windows inside a single browser task. This Web browser also has a Smart Pop-up Blocker - it blocks all the annoying pop-ups automatically!

This free Web Browser has full support for Windows XP Theme and P3P privacy policy and JavaScript error suppression.... It can handle multiple monitors and has tab status indicators. Annoying ad windows can be removed automatically and multiple pages can be saved and reopened together. Crazy Browser comes with many preconfigured search engines, but you can extend it to use your own.

To a tabbed Web browser, what is the most important thing? That is stable, if you used to open dozens of tab, but the browser always crashs, what do you think? Now, you have choice - Crazy Browser, Crazy Browser is the most stable tabbed Web browser! By the way, it's freeware, totaly free, no ads, no spyware.

Highlights
- Tabbed Browsing
It has the ability to open multiple sites and windows inside a single browser task.Web pages are organized on tabs to prevent your screen from getting cluttered.
- Customizable Mouse Navigation (Mouse Gesture)
A fast way to control the Web Browser. Mouse gestures can provide quick access to common functions of Crazy Browser.
- Plug-ins
Currently, Crazy Browser supports for 3 kinds of plug-ins: COM Objects, Scripts and Executable Files.
- Built-in Smart Pop-up Blocker
Crazy Browser allows you to prevent most pop-up windows from appearing over pages you want to view while you're using the Internet.

* Groups: You can set up several different groups of sites that all open on different tabs with just one click.
* Multimedia Data Loading: Control the download of multimedia, ActiveX, Images, Videos...
* Handle multiple monitors
* Tab status indicators
* Middle mouse button click on links open on new tab
* Security: Crazy Browser has full support for P3P privacy policy and zone-based security assignments.
* Zooming Web page
* ...


Test results:
Accept Useful New Windows: Simple examples. (2 points)
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked
 A new window appears after the "Open in New Window" menu item has been clicked
 A new window appears after a button has been clicked
 Popup windows at https- and edu- sites
Accept Useful New Windows: Sophisticated examples. New Window looks like Popup - popup killer should not confuse them. (1 point)
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and the parent page was refreshed simultaneously
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and the parent page was closed simultaneously
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and some dialogue has been shown

Stop Popup ads: Simple examples. (2 points)
 Ordinary OnLoad Popup
 Ordinary OnQuit Popup
 Ordinary Delayed Popup
 Delayed Synthesized Popup
 Delayed Modeless Dialog Popup
 Adware Popup
 Camouflaged Popup
 Windowless Flash
 InVue Popup
 Interstitials
Stop Popup ads: Sophisticated examples. Popups looks like Clicked New Windows - popup killer should not confuse them. (1 point)
 There is a page with an OnLoad Popup and a link to reload itself. The OnLoad Popup appears after the reload link has been clicked
 There is a page with an OnQuit Popup and a link to reload itself. OnQuit Popup appears after the reload link has been clicked

Crazy Browser's Popup Blocker is detected by simple popup killer detector


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