Opera[]
Company: Opera Software Author: -- (Freeware), http://www.opera.com/ Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix Languages: English and many other languages
Description: The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse. Home page:
http://www.opera.com/ download page v 9.02 (2006-09-21) [ Opera_9.02_Eng_Setup.exe (4758 KB) Windows (English)]
http://www.opera.com/download/ (desc. rev.: 2006-10-07)
Opera 9 already has built in adblocking. Read this:
http://operawiki.info/BlockAdvertisements
IMHO Not as good as Adblock in Firefox or Adshield in IE though.
>> I have stayed away from Proxomitron because I thought it had a steep >> learning curve. Maybe I need to spend the time to learn how to use >> it?
> I would suggest trying Privoxy.
Privoxy is almost as complicated as Proxomitron if you want to play with the filters, otherwise they are equally easy to setup.
Some other proxy type adblockers.
AdCruncher - http://www.softdevlabs.com/AdCruncher/Version_History.html Adextinguisher - http://www.bhatt.id.au/adext/ AdKiller - http://www.robinlewis.co.uk/AdKillerSetupExplorer.html AdSubtract SE - http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Misc__Utilities/AdSubtra... E.html Internet JUNKBUSTER - http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html and Guidescope note: Guidescope puts Ads on the menu, but can be turned off. Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/resources/index.html Proximodo - http://proximodo.sourceforge.net/ Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/ WebCleaner - http://webcleaner.sourceforge.net/ Webwasher - http://www.cyberguard.com/products/webwasher/webwasher_products/class... ndex.html MUFFIN - http://muffin.doit.org/ ZeroServ - http://www.ranish.com/zeroserv/