BEARS REPETITION:
Like you, I love Firefox for many reasons, including popup blocking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been surprised to see occasional popups.
It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.
Fortunately, you can get around it:
Type about:config into the Firefox location bar. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins Set the value to 2.
The possible values are:
0: Allow all popups from plugins.
1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
2: Block popups from plugins.
3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.
Drudge is the only site I have problems with. I'm not going to waste keystrokes just so I can go to his site. I have everything else working fine.
BTW, I'm starting to get spam on my fax machine at home. I simply send a 5 page return fax asking the sender to cease sending me unsolicited faxes. I use completely black pages with highlighted wording.