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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."

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  1. *sigh* by kurzweilfreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I can't believe I haven't seen it yet (but I'm only browsing at 0 so I may have missed it if it were modded down), and at the risk of being modded down myself...

    In Soviet Russia, the popup blocks YOU!

    *ducks for cover*

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    kurzweil_freak

    5th Kyu Genbukan Ninpo/KJJR student

    Be the darkness that allows the light to shine.

  2. Re:I've been testing it... by Spetiam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even AdBlock doesn't work for textual ads (e.g., Google ads on search result pages).

    Yeah, they're not quite as annoying as blinking "Click here and win!" images, but they're ads, damnit, and I don't like them.

    I think your parent post was trying to say that we need something that can reliably block any ad on specific pages. For a while, I manually edited my UserPrefs.js (iirc) file to get rid of the text ads on Google search results. We need something to make that easy.