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The following site has some tests for everyone who would like to verify their popup-blocking capabilities:

http://www.popuptest.com/

Firefox's popup blocking feature alone doesn't get the job done anymore. But the code below in conjunction with Firefox works well:

Firefox popups

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:

  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.

The possible values are:


52 posted on 07/28/2005 5:20:00 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Marie Antoinette; listenhillary

Cool. Ping. Check out the post I replied to.


62 posted on 07/28/2005 7:40:18 PM PDT by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant Pancake on my Head")
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