Comments on: How to Stop Firefox Popups

By: tim hanover

tim hanover — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:09:30 +0000

I can’t get into my email @comcast.net; keep getting error message saying that my browser (Firefox) is blocking pop-ups. I checked Tools, Options, General, Pop-Ups, and the box is definitely UNchecked. My cable service was interrupted for several hours a couple of days ago, and this problem started when it was reinstated. However, comcast email works on my other account. ???? I’m using Windows 7 and Firefox was updated today. Please help me! Would appreciate your replying to my email as well as here on this site. Thank you.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:53:41 +0000

this fix worked great, i use the site plentyoffish and every time i would hit the check mail button i would get a pop-up, was getting very annoying, but this trick worked like a charm, ty so much!!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:05:07 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH! That’s all I can say. Thank you, thank you, thank you! SO MUCH!

By: Bob Harris

Bob Harris — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:32:23 +0000

Just typing “about:config” in the window that was cycling a message pop up and not allowing me leave, stopped the script. Whatever it was caused by, a java message popup window, malicious script, whatever, it allowed me to continue working. Thanks!

By: Jim Hamm

Jim Hamm — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:12:17 +0000

Hi Eddie…I’ve used Firefox for a long time and have never been bothered by popups. I use the Adblock extension (there are two versions available, both seem to work well). Perhaps these extensions could help Jodo and Mike….Jim

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:27:59 +0000

There is a sort of pop-up I’ve been seeing of late that is transparent window overlayed upon a webpage… like a html Layer, but in a “window” of it’s own… is there some way to kill these?
–Mike

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:54:48 +0000

hey jordo – it does stop popups launched from flash, maybe the popups you’re getting are from one of the other methods? (there is a particularly annoying javascript method in heavy use now that launches a popup if you click anywhere on the screen, eg a text box, or even if you right click to use a mouse gesture. when i get time i’m going to look into stopping those)
-e

By: jordo

jordo — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:48:28 +0000

I plugged this in and it did not seem to have any effect, even after stopping and starting Mozilla services.