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Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking

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."

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  1. Re:test pop up link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your pop-up does not make sense. Because he did go some where. It is you who is going to need it.

  2. Re:test pop up link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's pretty mean. It's like goatsx for Christians. Days like these I hope there really is a hell for you to go to.

  3. 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.

  4. No such thing as free lunch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    punk! Who di you think pays for all those "freebies", like the internet, p0rn, etc.
    The ADS!

    God damn communist sonovoabitches

  5. 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

  6. Re:All things are relative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh yes, so what about the fucking ad-blocking. What good is it when Firefux randomly crashes and is a god-damned memory hog. I mean it takes up 190 fucking megs of memory, and that's with just three fucking tabs in one fucking window. Internet Explorer isn't that bad, true it less secure, but that's probably because it crashes before they can do anything in Firefux.

    p.s. I am not trying to be a troll here nor am I flaming anyone, I have had it with the Firefox team not doing anything with the crashes since beta testing and yes, this is a clean install, not a god-damned mother fucking upgrade. The reason why I'm posting here is to inform others about the problems with Firefox.