Comments on: Have Pop-ups Returned to your copy of Firefox?

By: LemonJoose

LemonJoose — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:48:37 +0000

The fix you mentioned kills the Flash-based pop-ups, but I still get some pop-ups that come through. I think they use Java somehow to get around the Firefox pop-up blocker. Try going to bluesnews.com, and you should get a pop-up.

You can test your pop-up blocker at:

http://www.kephyr.com/popupkillertest/

By: Rob Walley

Rob Walley — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:17:41 +0000

Simply OUTSTANDING!!!

By: Robert Nichols

Robert Nichols — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:32:46 +0000

OK. What are the pop-ups on torrentsearch.com? I changed the setting, and even use flashblock extension for firefox. Seems to be a different type of pop-up.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:04:54 +0000

I just disable Flash all together; maybe it’s a good technology, but there are just too many morons who wrote crappy Flash code that does stupid things…

By: Milo

Milo — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:34:08 +0000

Ahhh life just got a little bit better! Have to try that fasterfox too.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:09:11 +0000

I was wondering how pop-ups were getting through– even when looking at cached pages from Google searches. Thanks for sharing this very useful tip, John. And bless Pete Bevin for finding and publishing a solution to this annoying problem.

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:24:26 +0000

Checking my config, I found that item already existing and set to 2. This is FF Deer Park Beta 2, perhaps that is in that version by default?

By: John L

John L — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:19:47 +0000

You know I found this same problem and solution a few monthes back on Digg.com while going through all the old posts, unfortunently I still seem to get some flash ads that get through, and worse, I can’t even manually block them with another plugin I got to block ads from certain sources.

I mostly have this problem with popups from newgrounds.com

Rather annoying. This one does work great on majority of pop ups in flash however.

By: Obviousman

Obviousman — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:40:39 +0000

Try Avant Browser. It’s an Internet Explorer overlay program, but it allows you to block pop-ups, pictures, & flash. I install it for anyone who doesn’t like IE (everyone) & have not had one disatisfied customer in all the years it’s been in development.

By: Miguel Lopes

Miguel Lopes — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:11:46 +0000

Is there anything of the sort for IE? I’d like to use that on my company’s PCs, and they’re all IE…

By: Robert Nichols

Robert Nichols — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:47:18 +0000

I use the Flashblock extension and never noticed any problems with pop-ups.

By: Jonathan Bacon

Jonathan Bacon — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:08:33 +0000

This is great. I have been having this problem for awhile now. Seems to work well. Thanks

By: agile

agile — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:48:25 +0000

thanks Pete and John.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:11:58 +0000

You can also make use of Fasterfox, a plugin that not only speed-tweaks Firefox, but also comes with a built-in Flash ad blocker.

By: GaryM

GaryM — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:37:52 +0000

I love the comment on the guy’s site on October 19th:

“great work! You must be doing something right if Dvorak blogged you…that’s how I found it!”

Thanks for the tip Mr Dvorak!