Mozilla 0.9.4 Released

asa writes: "Lots of bug fixes (1,467 at last count) since 0.9.3 including the ability to disable the JavaScript window.open() method during page load and unload events. You can find more information on what's new at the release notes and mozillaZine."

Comments

How to manage popup windows in the new Mozilla

[davidu]

Ok folks, here is a really cool feature: The Ability to manage, on a site by site basis, which sites can give you popups and which can't. A very effective way to manage pop up ads. Here's how:

No POPUPS whatsoever:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");

But...if some sites need popups, make a zone for them like this:
user_pref("capability.policy.strict.sites", "http://www.evil.org http://www.annoying.com");
user_pref("capability.policy.strict.Window.alert", "noAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.strict.Window.confirm ", "noAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.strict.Window.prompt" , "noAccess");
... you get the idea....

It is very cool, and there is a lot of scripting and other trickery you can do with these prefrences.

Btw, this is all from: Configurable Security Policies

-David

Re:How to manage popup windows in the new Mozilla

[Spy Hunter]

Actually, what is in Mozilla now is much cooler yet, which is the ability to disable 99.9% of advertising popups while letting 99% of wanted popups through, with no user intervention necessary ! No need to maintain a list of sites that need popups to function. It disables popups during page load and unload, but lets through popups that happen due to an actual mouse click.

Of course, if this feature ever gets widespread use we'll just see javascript links that open up advertisements in addition to their targets, but that won't happen unless IE gets this feature, which is unlikely. So download Mozilla and free yourself from evil automatic popups!