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[shuri]

As we all know, in the recent weeks, spammers and pop-up companies figured out a way to spawn pop-ups that fool firefox's built-in protection..

Here's how to stop them

Kill Firefox Pop-ups

To block pop-ups from plugins, open your Firefox 1.0 or 1.0.1 browser, type about:config in the address field. Right-click in the resulting config page somewhere and select New -> Interger. Type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the resulting dialog, hit OK, type 2 in the next dialog and you’re all set.

Seems to work for me.

 

[alejob]

Hope this kills those espn pop ups.

 

[GaimeGuy]

The arms race with popups has begun

 

[DarienA]

Hope this kills those espn pop ups.

That's exactly what I was thinking... seems to be working...

 

[robertsan21]

thanks works fine.

 

[Baconäger]

Here's one of the developer's full post about it

There's been quite a lot of buzz around the blogs the last couple of weeks with people seeing the return of the pop-ups and pop-unders. It looks to me like the overwhelming majority of these are from plug-ins, mostly flash.

A number of pundits and bloggers have been wondering aloud whether or not we'll be able to keep up with the pop-up spammers now that more of them are focused on us. Well, we shipped 1.0 with the capability to block these pop-ups and pop-unders but we didn't enable it because we were concerned about breaking legitimate uses. If you'd like to turn it on, it's a fairly simple change -- and would be absolutely trivial for us to enable once we determine whether or not lots of websites are depending on the feature.

To block pop-ups from plugins, open your Firefox 1.0 or 1.0.1 browser, type about:config in the address field. Right-click in the resulting config page somewhere and select New -> Interger. Type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the resulting dialog, hit OK, type 2 in the next dialog and you're all set.

This pref can actually take three values:

* 0: open allowed
* 1: the opened windows are treated as popups, but they're allowed to open (we limit the number of these types of popups)
* 2: the window is a popup, block it

If you turn this on, please let me know how it works for you so we can make the decision about offering it to users who aren't likely to be hacking in about:config.

 

[Afro Thunder]

You can switch your browser, but...
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,66726,00.html

 

[Rorschach]

Seems to be working so far. wooh!

 

[Saurus]

awesome...thanks!

 

[EdLuva]

Thanks. I was getting popups at cdfreaks.com, too. It seems to be working.

 

[Memles]

I've been getting popups every now and then, but they were still pretty sporatic, so I'm not sure if this worked, or if I just haven't come across one of them yet.

 

[ckohler]

Can someone link me to an example of these new-fangled popups? I've not seen one.

 

[lexy]

What's been going on with Firefox lately?

It's been telling me to install a "critical update" but everytime I try to install it, it doesn't appear to do anything. The update window pops up but the update doesn't download. Anyone experience anything like this?

 

[fennec fox]

Yeah, I see a critical update there -- you need a Windows PC! Ohhhhhh!

 

[lexy]

Yeah, I see a critical update there -- you need a Windows PC! Ohhhhhh!

What?

 

[Dreamfixx]

Yeah, I see a critical update there -- you need a Windows PC! Ohhhhhh!

? It looks like he has windows, man.

 

[Kuroyume]

loxy....

Tools >> Options >> Web Features >> check "Allow web sites to install software"

Let the update install and then go back to uncheck the box if you want.

 

[hobbitx]

Hahaha take that Zophar.net!

 

[lexy]

loxy....

Tools >> Options >> Web Features >> check "Allow web sites to install software"

Let the update install and then go back to uncheck the box if you want.

Thanks, that did the trick. Seems so obvious now :lol

 

[Ecrofirt]

Hahaha take that Zophar.net!

Zophar seems to have new ads now that are getting around firefox. Pup unders that open in the bottom right of your screen.

Any idea how to get rid of these new bastard ads?

edit: I don't know how many other ads this is true for, but these new ones have an uneditable address bar as well.