You are visiting a web site and all of a sudden your screen begins to fill with boxes advertising. It’s happened to almost all of us at some point in our Web surfing experience.

It is called Pop-up ads or popups. Pop-up ads or popups are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to attract web
traffic instead of static advertising banners.

So how to block the Pop-up’s ? Here is how..

Internet Explore Broswer :  Windows XP Service Pack 2 now includes a built-in Pop-up blocker. You can adjust these settings so that Pop-up Blocker works the way you want it to, in the following page - Block Pop-up Windows with Internet Explorer: Windows XP SP2

Firefox Browser : Firefox allows you to control both pop-ups and popunders through the Content panel in OptionsPreferences. Pop-up blocking is turned on by default, so you don’t have to worry about enabling it to prevent pop-ups from appearing in Firefox. - Firefox Pop-up Blocker Options

Get Firefox 3 during Download Day ( June 17 th 10am US-Pacific Standard Time) to help set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy.
Go to go to the Mozilla firefox world record site to pledge and download Firefox 3.

Accordign to Mozilla Developer News weblog the final version of Mozilla Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday 17th June.

"After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready," "It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th."

[ Coming Tuesday, June 17th: Firefox 3 ]

Mozilla Firefox is a free fast, full-featured web browser that makes browsing more efficient. If you want to speed up your Firefox browser even faster, then Fasterfox addon will it.

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Get Fasterfox 2.0.0 from mozdev.org [Fasterfox - performance and network tweaks for Firefox ]