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Reason #5: No Pop-up Ads

That’s right, when you use Opera as your browser you can turn off all pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-behinds, and every other kind of pop.

To do so, all you have to do is press F12 on your keyboard, and choose “refuse pop-up windows” from the menu that is displayed. Or you can choose to have them open in another tab in the background so they don’t disrupt the web site you are actually trying to look at. Or you can tell Opera to only open the pop-up windows that you request to open. This is my setting of choice, because this way if I go to a web site that includes their entire layout in a pop-up window so that they can control the size of your browser, Opera will open this window because I have clicked a link asking it to open. However if I come to a page that wants to open its own pop-up windows just because I came along to view their site, Opera will not open them because I have not specifically asked them to open by clicking on a link.