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Firefox Popup Blocking by kierant on 10-26-2005 at 08:35 PM

Since reverting to Firefox I have noticed that the popup blocking isn't as efficient as when I used IE. When using IE nothing ever got through. I had the default setting at medium and then also had the Google toolbar option as well.

However, Firefox's Google toolbar doesn't include this option and there is no scale to the amount of blockage available. I regularly get popups now which is quite annoying.

Ideally I would like an addon for Firefox that can improve this situation ( I tried a quick search of the Firefox site but couldn't find a relevent extension) without having to download a seperate application. Alternatively someone might just be able to tell me how to improve blocking.

Thanks


RE: Firefox Popup Blocking by Caboose on 10-26-2005 at 09:48 PM

quote:
1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

Hope this works for you. More info here.
RE: RE: Firefox Popup Blocking by Lou on 10-26-2005 at 10:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Caboose
quote:
1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

Hope this works for you. More info here.


Awesomeness I'm going to go test this....very helpful. Thanks
RE: Firefox Popup Blocking by thc2010 on 10-26-2005 at 10:07 PM

wow! this is actualy quite the oposite for me :S


RE: Firefox Popup Blocking by Lou on 10-26-2005 at 10:08 PM

I tried it out and it works 100% for me:)


RE: Firefox Popup Blocking by Jimcando on 10-26-2005 at 10:10 PM

it works fine for me aswell (Y)


RE: Firefox Popup Blocking by kierant on 10-26-2005 at 10:10 PM

Thanks a lot.

So far I've only tried it out on mess.be which tends to have a few popups that sneak through the Firefox blocking..........And now they don't appear.

Thanks again!