[Johnny B.]

Using Explorer 6 with XP.

Internet Explorer 6 is way out of date! It was also a disaster regarding vulnerabilities to malware.

The quickest solution is to go to http://www.mozilla.org, download and install Firefox and see how that works for you. I'm pretty sure that Firefox has a setting to prevent popup windows. There are also add-ons that will lock down the web browser to avoid getting malware.

Also, as someone else on this thread mentioned, there is a good chance you have viruses or other malware on your computer. There are several free anti-virus programs that can help you clean up your system. I don't normally run Windows, so I haven't kept up with the latest reviews, but I'm sure others on this forum can provide suggestions.

[TomGuy]

Internet Explorer 6 is way out of date!

It may be, but 7 and 8 are pretty much junk. I tried 7, deleted it. I have 8 on the Win7 laptop only because it came with the laptop. It keeps wanting me to upgrade to 9. I keep clicking 'no thanks'.

I use an early tabbed browser -- Fastbrowser Pro -- that works excellent with FR (except for some of the blog websites that cause crashes). I even put the tabbed browser on Win7, and it works -- except for a few minor things. That tabbed browser is based on IE6. It has some editing add-ons that are not available, not have I found comparable tools, for later editions of IE.