Web Free 1.1 Users Guide

http://www.falken.net/webfree/ Take control of your web surfing! User’s Guide v1.1 WebFree Copyright ©1996-1997 by Steven Falkenburg. All Rights Reserved. Warranty and License information is printed at the end of this User’s Guide. Special thanks to my beta testers, including Nancy Falkenburg, Steve Bollinger, Nitin Ganatra, Dave Clancy, Jim Luther, Alex Rosenberg, Brian Bechtel, Jeff Robbin, Mike Neil, Greg Robbins, and many more. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Netscape Navigator is a registered trademark of Netscape, Inc. Microsoft Internet Explorer is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other names are registered trademarks of their respective companies. Table of Contents ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What is WebFree? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What can WebFree do for me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Installing WebFree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 How to install WebFree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 How to remove WebFree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 WebFree agreement dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Other WebFree files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.Using WebFree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Surfing with WebFree installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Blocking additional images using contextual menus . . . . . . . . . 4 Other neat stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Configuring WebFree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 WebFree Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Settings pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Statistics pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 About/Registration pane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5. WebFree Usage Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 WebFree for advertisement blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Using WebFree for privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Eliminating web page clutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Speeding up web surfing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…