Eliminates Pop-Up Windows
When you visited this page, you were greeted with one of these annoying windows. You didn't ask to see it. We didn't ask you if you wanted to see it. Any other website out there can force these on you if you don't have StartSurfing on your computer protecting you while you surf the web.

Eliminates Browser Resizing
When you loaded this page, we resized your browser to its maximum height and width without asking. In the event that you already had your browser maximized and didn't notice this, manually resize your browser to half of its height and width and then reload the page.

ReEnable Your Right-Click Function
Using your mouse, try to right-click on this page. If you don't have StartSurfing - you can't.

Disables Auto-Midi Files
Some websites think that you want to listen to music when you visit their website and they may or may not even realize how long it takes to load the page. They don't ask you if you do and a lot of those that do play music don't even give you the option of turning it off. StartSurfing lets you decide if you want to listen to sounds.

Removes Background Images
If you've spent much time surfing, you've seen them. Most are ok, but you'll eventually run across one that - well - is so ugly it hurts your eyes just to see it. You've probably even visited websites and had to wait for a page to finish loading only to find out it was only the background image that was holding you up. StartSurfing removes background and table images.

Allows For Frame Resizing
A frame is nothing more than 2 pages merged together to form one page. The trouble frames sometime produce is that if the webmaster doesn't code them correctly, you can't see everything the webmaster intended for you to see. StartSurfing allows you to modify (drag) frames in and out to make them resizable.

Disable Confirm/Alert Boxes
Alert/Confirm boxes are a useful tool when used as intended but they can also do some very deceptive things as well. Using an alert/confirm box, I can change your browsers startpage, add my website to your list of favorites and read personal information about you such as your email address, browser version and operating system. Put your mouse over this link to view an alert/confirm box.

Disables Status Bar Messages
Surfers are accustomed to looking in the status bar area when they cursor over a link so that they can see where the link will take them. Status bar scrollers are used to stop your ability to do that and perhaps because the website you're on doesn't want you to know where a link really leads to. If you look down at the bottom left hand corner of your browser now, you'll see a really annoying status bar message. When you mouse-over this link, it hides where the link leads to. Mouse-Over Here. Can you tell where the link goes to?

Disables OnMouseover Events
An onMouseover event is when your cursor touches something on a web page that is coded in such a way that something happens when the event occurs. This could be something as covering up the actual url of where a link goes to something more devious such as automatically sending you to another website. To see an example of this Mouse Over this link and we'll open up a pop-up without your actually clicking the link.

SmartSearch Results
StartSurfing provides highly targeted search results when performing a search on many of your favorite search engines. If StartSurfing isn't compatabile with your favorite search engine - send us an email and we'll add it!