Built in Mozilla popup blocker

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Has anybody else noticed that the Built in Mozilla popup blocker is
not working very well anymore?
 
John said:
Has anybody else noticed that the Built in Mozilla popup blocker is not
working very well anymore?
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I use Firefox, and yes I noticed that too. I assumed naively that
people are beginning to work-around the controls...
 
Has anybody else noticed that the Built in Mozilla popup blocker is
not working very well anymore?
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Not working very well means exactly what?

Popups slipping through?
"Good" popups being blocked?
Other bugs with whitelisting? etc.
 
John Corliss said:
Has anybody else noticed that the Built in Mozilla popup blocker is not
working very well anymore?

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No problems here with Firefox 1.0PR.
 
John Corliss said:
Has anybody else noticed that the Built in Mozilla popup blocker is
not working very well anymore?

--
Regards from John Corliss
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.
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That seems to be the case. I thought it was just a problem on my end.
Maybe I messed around with the wrong setting or something.
 
Aaron said:
Not working very well means exactly what?

Popups slipping through?
"Good" popups being blocked?
Other bugs with whitelisting? etc.
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The first one.
 
John said:
Has anybody else noticed that the Built in Mozilla popup blocker is not
working very well anymore?
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Can you give an example URL? I spend a lot of time on the internet and
I have not had one slip through with Mozilla or Firefox.
 
The first one.
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If you have Tabbrowser Extensions installed, try running a profile
without TBE. TBE causes Firefox 0.10's popup-blocking not to work
properly, and I guess it might with the latest Mozilla as well.
 
»Q« said:
If you have Tabbrowser Extensions installed, try running a profile
without TBE. TBE causes Firefox 0.10's popup-blocking not to work
properly, and I guess it might with the latest Mozilla as well.
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Nope, don't have that one installed. But now I'm concerned that maybe
another extension might have a similar effect. At any rate, I'm also
using WebWasher and it does an excellent job of blocking popups in
both IE and Moz. It's just that sometimes I have to turn off my
proxies and that's when I see popups.
 
Anti_Freak_Machine said:
Can you give an example URL? I spend a lot of time on the internet and
I have not had one slip through with Mozilla or Firefox.
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ACCKK!! I knew somebody would ask that. When it happened this morning,
I hadn't had a cup of coffee yet and forgot to bookmark the site. I'll
keep my eye open for one though.
 
John said:
Thanks very much for posting this, Charles. I'll check it out.
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Mozilla 1.7 failed PopUp killer test 12/21 (layers), 13/21 (using
flash) and 21/12 (addition to the sidebar request). However, I'm not
using the most current revision.
 
Mozilla 1.7 failed PopUp killer test 12/21 (layers), 13/21
(using flash) and 21/12 (addition to the sidebar request).
However, I'm not using the most current revision.
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Mozilla 1.7.3 here. Failed 12/21 and 21/21.
Not bad for a browser.
 
_John Corliss_, giovedì 23/set/2004:
Mozilla 1.7 failed PopUp killer test 12/21 (layers), 13/21 (using
flash) and 21/12 (addition to the sidebar request). However, I'm not
using the most current revision.
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I had the same results as yours with Firefox 1.0PR
 
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