If you use America Online 6’s browser, choose Settings Scroll through the Settings window until you reach Active Scripting set the option to Disable or Prompt and click OK.
The windows may open when you enter them, shortly after or as you leave. But many useful sites are loaded with pop-ups. The quick solution is to press -W to close the uninvited browser window (repeat as necessary) and avoid a visit from the impertinent site again. And with so many open, it’s easy to close the wrong one and lose surfing momentum.
To get back to my original window, I have to switch away from or close the extra windows.
Like banner ads, the windows usually hawk junk I don’t want.īut I can’t just ignore pop-ups. So it drives me nuts when sites use their web programming wiles to open extra browser windows automatically. I know how many browser windows I want open at any particular time, and it’s usually one. Send browser pop-ups to their deserved demise Depending on your query, sometimes it might be faster to pick up the phone. It’s important to know when to stop web searching. Got a question about the All Blacks? Head to, instead of going to Google or Yahoo. You can often save time by going to an expert. This is very useful if your initial search returned a couple of hundred pages and you think you can hone it down by using a couple of keywords. Scroll to the bottom of the page after running a Google search (tip: hit the spacebar on your keyboard for a mouse-free scroll-down) and you’ll see a Search Within Results box. A fund-raiser who often researches potential donors’ biographies tells us the quickest search is often “John Smith” combined with “honorary degree”. If you’re searching for specialised material, make a note of the specific phrases that others use in the field. If you want links that relate to a particular time, include the date or year in quotation marks, such as: “Olympics and 2002”. With most search engines AND and NOT are interchangeable with + and. Another useful Boolean term, NOT, can be used to exclude a term. Try the Boolean command AND first, to see links with all search terms, as in “Toyota AND Corolla”. Typing in “renew my New Zealand passport” should lead the lost traveller to. You can often locate what you want by entering a task into the search field. For example, if you include quotation marks when you search for “Pinetree Meads” you will avoid getting listings for timber rather than the ex-All Black. Putting quotation marks around a search phrase often works magic. Try entering “Toyota Corolla reviews” instead of just “Toyota Corolla”. When you’re researching a product, for example, use a query that helps the search site know what you want. The more you use them, the better your results. If you choose two or three search sites to use most often, familiarise yourself with their advanced search rules.