No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0

jsled writes "C|Net /News.com article details how the forthcoming Netscape 7.0 will not include the nifty pop-up blocking sported in Mozilla, as AOL depends on pop-up ads for annoy^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing to their "valued" customers. The MozillaZine story and comments have a couple of extra, interesting points of detail: how to easily restore the functionality and how some sites get around the popup blocking." Update: 08/15 12:45 GMT by J : In related news, Doug Isenberg asks over on GigaLaw: Are Pop-Up Ads Illegal? The news publishers who say "yes" say that turning off graphics in your web browser should be illegal too.

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Direct link to the pop-up restore...

[edgrale]

(Original) http://ufaq.org/files/adblocker.xpi

Pleas post mirrors in this thread.

Re:Direct link to the pop-up restore...

[LuxuryYacht]

Download the adblocker.xpi file (Shift+click to download).

When you download the adblocker.xpi file in Netscape 7, it will add .txt to the filename (adblocker.xpi.txt).
Before saving the file, remove .txt from the filename and save the file to disk.

Then in Netscape 7 click
File | Open to install.

Then In Netscape 7 click
Edit | Preferences | Advanced - Scripts & Windows to unselect or select the Open unrequested windows

This is such a non-problem. Just edit prefs.js

[ishmalius]

NS7 will be able to block popups just the same. There just might not be a GUI for it! ;-0

Just enter this line in the prefs.js file:

user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);

Fight the Man!

Mozilla Power!

How to disable unrequested (pop-up/behind) windows

[LuxuryYacht]

How to disable unrequested (pop-up/behind) windows:

Add this line to your user.js or prefs.js:

user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);

OR

Download the adblocker.xpi file.

http://techaholic.net/adblocker.xpi

When you download the adblocker.xpi file in Netscape 7, it will add .txt to the filename (adblocker.xpi.txt). Before saving the file, remove .txt from the filename and save the file to disk. Then in Netscape 7 click File | Open to install.

In Netscape 7 click Edit | Preferences | Advanced - Scripts & Windows to unselect or select the Open unrequested windows.

Re:A dialogue I had with Anti-Adblocker

[unsinged int]

I just went to that guys site, and it had examples of sites using their anti-adblocker.

So I visited them using Mozilla with popups disabled and an ad blocking proxy, and I didn't see a single ad. Some product that guy's pushing. Doesn't even work.

Re:A dialogue I had with Anti-Adblocker

[WWWWolf]

So, how long before we see anti-anti-adblocker.xpi? Oh, never mind, just stuff this to prefs.js:

user_pref("capability.policy.antiantiadblocker.sit es, "http://www.antiadblocker.com");
user_pref("capability.policy.antiantiadblocker.dom .disable_open_during_load", false);

... and if there's domains that use this baby, just stuff the domains there. Popups only for those sites. And still it's possible to further enrichen this by killing the actual popups (could get as simple as "if that's not an antiadblocker window, kill it")...

No wonder this guy's a bit frustrated. Fighting a desperate war that can't be won, especially if a random non-Mozilla-geek gives a 2-line recipe that makes the anti-adblocker thing to give false positive =)

Kids: If it's interpreted by the browser, it must get deciphered at some point, and since it is, it can be intercepted and tricked into believing whatever it wants to believe =)

I think this thing will just further the development of Mozilla's security policy editor that was planned but probably pushed out of 1.0 release plan... It works even now!