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Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-makes-me-sad-that-this-is-necessary dept.

BlakeCaldwell writes "The popular open-source browser already contains a pop-up blocker by default, but this does not handle pop-ups launched by plug-ins such as Flash and Java. Mozilla employee Asa Dotzler wrote in his blog last week that Mozilla developers are responding to the increasing number of advertisers that are using plug-ins to launch pop-up ads."

2 of 464 comments (clear)

  1. you have no guts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Real balls would have been to include a barbecue for jews and mohammed blowing his camel for the arabs...
    Now THEN I would have been impressed.

    You remind me of the person who is always at the tail end of a fad because he doesnt have any convictions of his own and just follows safely from a distance.

    Grow a pair and come back to us.

  2. Re:Use the adblock extension! by asa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I'm shocked that so many people use Firefox, but not the Adblock extension."

    With over 40 million downloads of Firefox 1.0.x and less than 100K downloads of adblock, where's the shock?

    - A