Anybody else start getting pop-ups in firefox?

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ghostman
Yup. Just got one. Try www.abum.com

Just tried it and again no popups.

I think I have adblocker extension installed - if that makes a difference.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: ghostman
Yup. Just got one. Try www.abum.com

I see no pop-ups in Opera.

SP2 IE I see one.

FF goes berzerk with all these pop-up was blocked warnings.

You should probably note that some of the links on that site are probably NSFW

 

[OulOat]

None using .7

 

[ActuaryTm]

Wrong forum (but hopefully, most of you know that).

None via Opera v 7.54 on any of the links mentioned in this thread. Do realize this is a FF thread, but thought it worth mentioning in case it were a cross-browser issue (beaten by JustAnAverageGuy whilst typing this reply).

Will load FF on a virtual machine at first convience. No mention of which versions of FF users are utilizing in this thread. Might help provide an answer.

 

[So]

None thus far.

 

[Davegod75]

yep...just started the other day

 

[Shawn]

nope not at all.

 

[Kaido]

I use the Adblock extension. Doesn't stop popups, but does block images and flash animations if you want - selected by hand. Makes AT look a lot cleaner

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Got about 3 or 4 popups in firefox today, first time ever.

<edit> no I'm not looking at pron!

I've been noticing the same thing. I used to never get popups in Firefox, but for the past week or so the rate has been increasing quickly. I think the spam companies are realizing what a market that Firefox has, so they're writing their popup scripts to work on Firefox.

Expect the rate to increase drastically.

 

[jlee]

I get them occasionally..packetnews has a tendency to drop one once in a while.

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

Damn it, I'm getting pop-ups in firefox too now... any cure for this?

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: lizardboy

Originally posted by: Kaido
Firefox users, try clicking various links on this page:

http://members.tripod.com/~terryctheater/shivaphotoalbum/page12.html

I don't know if it's due to linking to a popup and a website or what...

i got one

me too

 

I got one pop under yesterday. Apparently pop-up programmers have figured a way around the blockers. Only way to fix is to disable Javascript.

 

[Tauren]

First one last night at a Flash tutorial site.

 

[lizardboy]

Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Damn it, I'm getting pop-ups in firefox too now... any cure for this?

I read this on Slashdot, seems to be working for me.

Go to Tools --> Options --> Web Features and click on "Advanced" next to "Enable Javascript"; uncheck the top 3 boxes (Move, Raise, Disable); OK --> OK; close & restart Firefox. I haven't seen a pop-up since doing this.

 

[PTCvette]

I've been getting a few lately myself. Thought it was kinda odd, but I guess I'm not alone.

 

[jfall]

I get the odd popup using firefox. I always seem to get one when going to ebaumsworld.com .. firefox blocks the first popup but misses the second. I'm using FF 1.0 on Linux, I doubt it's a spyware related problem

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Yep, I've had a few using FF..

 

[Chadder007]

Yep, just started getting them a day or two ago....going to a website and clicking a link that also has in it to bring up a pop up at that time somehow, bypassing Firefox's built in blocker. Are they seriously that desperate to force pop ups on people that don't want them?

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

Originally posted by: lizardboy

Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Damn it, I'm getting pop-ups in firefox too now... any cure for this?

I read this on Slashdot, seems to be working for me.

Go to Tools --> Options --> Web Features and click on "Advanced" next to "Enable Javascript"; uncheck the top 3 boxes (Move, Raise, Disable); OK --> OK; close & restart Firefox. I haven't seen a pop-up since doing this.

Done... but this makes it seem like the pop up will just be a regular window now... *shrug*

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: lizardboy

Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Damn it, I'm getting pop-ups in firefox too now... any cure for this?

I read this on Slashdot, seems to be working for me.

Go to Tools --> Options --> Web Features and click on "Advanced" next to "Enable Javascript"; uncheck the top 3 boxes (Move, Raise, Disable); OK --> OK; close & restart Firefox. I haven't seen a pop-up since doing this.

Will try that, thanks.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
Yep, just started getting them a day or two ago....going to a website and clicking a link that also has in it to bring up a pop up at that time somehow, bypassing Firefox's built in blocker. Are they seriously that desperate to force pop ups on people that don't want them?

I can't think of any reason how popups can be considered a good advertising method when the only thing they do is to annoy users.

 

[randalee]

Yep I started getting a few popups here and there just this week/last week using Firefox. It's only a matter of time before all of its holes get found out. Hopefully the Firefox team is quick at getting them filled...

 

[Baked]

Go to cdfreaks.com, those euro bastards have found a way to code their ads so it by passes FF's pop-up blocker, Adblock too. Safari on Mac OSX took care of it though.

Originally posted by: lizardboy

I read this on Slashdot, seems to be working for me.

Go to Tools --> Options --> Web Features and click on "Advanced" next to "Enable Javascript"; uncheck the top 3 boxes (Move, Raise, Disable); OK --> OK; close & restart Firefox. I haven't seen a pop-up since doing this.

Didn't work. Still getting pop-up from cdfreaks.

 

[Megamorph]

I was just about to post the same thing as the OP. I started getting pop ups in Firefox about a week ago and have been getting them several times a day ever since. I thought it was just me and that I must have f-ed up some settings in my browser or something.