I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, but if you’re a Firefox user (or anything Mozilla based for that matter) and are having occasional popups, they’re more than likely triggered from a Flash object. Eric has been having some problems with comics.com when he goes to read Pearls Before Swine – so this is for you Eric. Cleverly, the Mozilla folks have a way to block popups being generated from a plugin, such as the Flash Player. How can you invoke this? Read on…
- Type about:config in your address bar and press Enter
- Anywhere in that list of settings which appears, right-click and choose New->Integer
- Copy and paste this into the box which appears: privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
- Click OK or press Enter and then enter a value of 0 into the next box and click OK or press Enter.
Notes: The value of 0 above allows popups, but only from the list of allowed sites you have configured in your Options. You can also choose a value of 2 for the final step above if you choose to block all popups generated by plugins.
The odd thing is…
I only get them the FIRST time I view the site every day. Subsequent visits are popup free.
Almost makes me feel bad for the nasty e-mail I sent Pastis about what a bunch of degenerates his syndicate are.
Thank you for posting this! I was so sick of getting those popups when I loaded Pears too.
[...] job of stopping popups, but not ones that stem from plugins (like Flash). Justin over at wantmoore.com has passed along the tip. 1. Type about:config in your address bar [...]
Score one for Justin. I’ve been roaming mozilla.org for a good fix for weeks now!
av8ur.com’s browser thanks you
The morning after I added this integer I got another popup. I have switched it to 2 to see if it completely knocks out everything – but have a feeling I’ll be going back to 0 if it kills what I think it will kill. What would 1 do?