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If you are getting pop-ups and pop-unders, which are mostly Flash based, you can try this tweak.

To block pop-ups from plugins, open your Firefox browser.

1) Type about:config in the address field.
2) Right-click in the resulting config page somewhere and select New -> Interger. 3) Type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the resulting dialog, hit OK,
4) Type 2 in the next dialog and you're all set.

This pref can actually take three values:

• 0: open allowed
• 1: the opened windows are treated as popups, but they're allowed to open (we limit the number of these types of popups)
• 2: the window is a popup, block it


Feedback received on this FAQ entry:
  • This - it no werkie on FF Nightly builds.

    2014-07-18 02:03:11

  • WOW. This was cool. and effective..........................thanks

    2010-08-13 18:38:32

  • thanks very much.very helpful and worked a treat

    2009-10-07 18:57:15



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by FastEddie See Profile edited by MacGyver See Profile
last modified: 2005-08-14 15:27:37