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Hello. I mostly lurk, and I visit infrequently unless elections are heating up. I apologize if my post is inappropriate, I know vanity posts are discouraged. If I'm out of line, please report my thread, delete it, smack me down as appropriate. I work on computers for a living, and have been really disgusted with the number and frequency of annoying pop up ads on Drudge. They get past IE's integrated blocker. They get past the Google toolbar. I don't want to install another browser or take heroic measures to browse in peace. If Mr. Drudge asked me to support...

The Mozilla Foundation is testing a patch to its Firefox browser that puts the kibosh on popup ads which have been slipping through the open-source browser's blocker. In recent weeks, said the group, advertising networks, in particular Fastclick, have started exploiting the fact that Firefox's popup blocker doesn't stymie Flash and Java popups by default. Firefox can disable such popups, but the current version has that feature turned off due to concerns that it would interfere with legitimate popup windows that some sites use. A manual method of changing the default to block plug-in popups was offered up by the...