Clicked on two stories and got SIX pop-ups.
Bye, Matt."
Were the popups the result of exiting the Drudge Report (code from the Drudge site), or due to code on the news sites you visited that were linked at Drudge's site? If it's the latter, Drudge isn't at fault. BTW, I noticed a while back that Drudge's own site popups appear now even while using Firefox with popup blocking enabled. A solution is:
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.
I was going to have people email me in order to privately explain methods of getting around the problem, why make it obvious to the URLs?
SUPER!! it worked!
Thank you...
Thanks! I was wondering how I was still getting popups on occasion.
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.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You are like a beautiful dream - one without popups...
Many thanks for the fix- passing it on to all interested parties I know.
Interesting solution. Mine was to no longer go to Drudge. I was particularly peeved that his popups were attempting to install a virus on my machine.