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Browsers that block pop-up ads

• AOL Explorer
  AOL Explorer
  AOL Explorer, previously known as AOL Browser, is a graphical web browser based on the Microsoft Trident layout engine and was released by AOL. In July 2005, AOL launched AOL Explorer as a free download and as an optional download with AIM version 5.9. AOL Explorer supports tabbed...
  
  
• Avant Browser
  Avant Browser
  Avant Browser is a freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer . It runs on Windows 2000 and above,...
  
  
• Enigma Browser
  Enigma Browser
  The Enigma Browser was previously a shareware Internet Explorer shell but is now freeware. It uses Internet Explorer's Trident layout engine. It was made for Windows XP,2000,ME,98.It presently incorporates many features including:*Popup Killer...
  
  
• GreenBrowser
  GreenBrowser
  GreenBrowser is a freeware web browser based on Internet Explorer's core. GreenBrowser based upon the Trident rendering engine used in Internet Explorer....
  
  
• Internet Explorer
  Internet Explorer
  Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
  
  
• Lunascape
  Lunascape (web browser)
  Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko , WebKit , and Trident...
  
  
• Maxthon
  Maxthon
  Maxthon is a free web browser for Microsoft Windows. The latest release, Maxthon 3, supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines....
  
  
• MSN Explorer
  MSN Explorer
  MSN Explorer is a web browser, developed by Microsoft, that integrates MSN and Windows Live features such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger with a web browser. To make use of these services requires a Windows Live ID...
  
  
• NeoPlanet
  NeoPlanet
  NeoPlanet was a graphical web browser released in 1998 and was based on the Trident rendering engine . It was designed to be a customizable browser with content channels and search facilities, as well as email and download management...
  
  
• Netcaptor
  NetCaptor
  NetCaptor was an Internet Explorer shell that was in development from 1997 to 2005. It used the Trident layout engine of Internet Explorer in conjunction with additional programmed features to create an alternate browsing experience with a tab-based interface and an expanded feature set...
  
  
• Netscape 8
  Netscape Browser
  Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's...
  
  
• Sleipnir
• TrustyFiles
  TrustyFiles
  TrustyFiles is a closed source Microsoft Windows-based peer-to-peer client which connects to the Gnutella, Gnutella2, FastTrack, eDonkey, Overnet and BitTorrent network protocols....
  
  
• UltraBrowser
  UltraBrowser
  UltraBrowser is a graphical web browser developed by UltraBrowser.com Inc, based upon the Trident layout engine, part of Internet Explorer since IE version 4. The program is lightweight and features an advanced GUI which features various links, channels and search facilities. The latest version was...
  
  
• WebbIE
  WebbIE
  WebbIE is a freeware web browser designed for screen reader users. It re-presents web pages as text with a caret, allowing users to use their existing screen reader or assistive technology to read it, but is not self-voicing, unlike Home Page Reader.-History:WebbIE was developed as a student...
  
  

• Camino
  Camino
  Camino is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system...
  
  
• Epiphany
  Epiphany (web browser)
  Epiphany is an open source web browser for the GNOME desktop environment. The browser is a descendant of Galeon, and was created after developer disagreements about Galeon's growing complexity...
  
  
• Flock
  Flock (web browser)
  Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla....
  
  
• Galeon
  Galeon
  Galeon is a web browser for GNOME based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine. Galeon’s self-declared mission was to deliver the web and only the web. Galeon was discontinued in September 2008....
  
  
• K-Meleon
  K-Meleon
  K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language layer, and as...
  
  
• Lunascape
  Lunascape (web browser)
  Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko , WebKit , and Trident...
  
  
• Mozilla Application Suite
  Mozilla Application Suite
  The Mozilla Application Suite is a cross-platform integrated Internet suite. Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by AOL. It is based on the source code of Netscape Communicator...
  
  
• Mozilla Firefox
  Mozilla Firefox
  Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
  
  
• Netscape 7
• Netscape 8
  Netscape Browser
  Netscape Browser is the name of a proprietary Windows web browser published by AOL, but developed by Mercurial Communications. It is the eighth major release in name of the Netscape series of browsers, originally produced by the defunct Netscape Communications Corporation.While Netscape Browser's...
  
  
• SeaMonkey
  SeaMonkey
  SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code...
  
  
• Dennis The Menace

• Google Chrome
  Google Chrome
  Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...
  
  
• Konqueror
  Konqueror
  Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...
  
  
• iCab
  ICab
  iCab is a web browser for the Macintosh by Alexander Clauss, derived from Crystal Atari Browser for Atari TOS compatible computers. It is the most recently actively developed browser for 68k-based Macintoshes that features tabbed browsing and one of a very few browsers that was still updated in...
  
  
• Lunascape
  Lunascape (web browser)
  Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko , WebKit , and Trident...
  
  
• OmniWeb
  OmniWeb
  OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system...
  
  
• Safari
  Safari (web browser)
  Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...
  
  
• Shiira
  Shiira
  Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Shiira uses WebKit for rendering and scripting.Shiira Project was led by Makoto Kinoshita. The latest release...
  
  

• Opera
  Opera (web browser)
  Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,...
  
  

• Links
  Links (web browser)
  Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support , supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.It is oriented toward visual users who want to retain many typical elements of...
  
  
• NetSurf
  NetSurf
  NetSurf is an open source web browser which runs on a variety of platforms including RISC OS, AmigaOS and Unix-like systems. NetSurf has features that include tabbed browsing, text selection and PDF export...
  
  
• w3m
  W3m
  w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser. It has support for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and inline images on suitable terminals...
  
  

Add-on programs that block pop-up ads

• Adblock
  Adblock
  Adblock Plus is a content-filtering extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers. ABP, a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed.-How it works:Like Mozilla's built-in image blocker, Adblock...
  
  
• Alexa Toolbar
  Alexa Toolbar
  The Alexa Toolbar, is an application produced by Alexa Internet, and is a Firefox extension and Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website specific statistics.-Content:...
  
  
• Google Toolbar
  Google Toolbar
  Google Toolbar is an Internet browser toolbar only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox .-Google Toolbar 1.0 December 11, 2000:New features:*Direct access to the Google search functionality from any web page*Web Site search...
  
  
• IE7pro
  IE7Pro
  IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9 that aims to enhance the feature set provided by the browser. IE7Pro adds features such as tab enhancement, an ad blocker and flash blocker, mouse gestures, inline search, privacy enhancements, online bookmark service, Greasemonkey-like user...
  
  
• iMacros
  IMacros
  iMacros is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer web browsers which adds record and replay functionality similar to that found in web testing and form filler software. The macros can be combined and controlled via JavaScript. Demo macros and JavaScript code...
  
  
• MSN Toolbar
• NoScript
  NoScript
  NoScript is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, created and actively maintained by Giorgio Maone, an Italian software developer and member of the Mozilla Security Group...
  
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• Privoxy
  Privoxy
  Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering Web pages and removing advertisements...
  
  
• Proxomitron
  Proxomitron
  Proxomitron, the Universal Web Filter, is a filtering web proxy written by Scott R. Lemmon. This program was originally designed to run under Windows 95....
  
  
• Yahoo! Toolbar
  Yahoo! Toolbar
  Yahoo! Toolbar is a toolbar that installs on the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, within the context of internet access functions. It allows access to several functions, including Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Mail. It also contains built-in algorithms to prevent pop-ups and spyware...