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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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firefox popups

Lately it seems like firefox shows the 'firefox hasp revented this site from displaying a popup' site quite frequently, and yet I still see the popups.  Is this that the sites have found a way around the popup code, or am I misetting something?

For example, if I search for a word at http://m-w.com/ I get a popup and the firefox bar saying it was blocked. Is it just me?

Dusty

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freakyc

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Registered: 2004-03-28

Posts: 91

Re: firefox popups

No, it's not just you.  I'm trying out the 1.5 RC1 and it seems to be blocking better.  That popup at Merriam-Webster was blocked.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: firefox popups

I do get a pop-up from time-to-time. But for  http://m-w.com/, I don't get any pop-up and no 'firefox has prevented this site from displaying a popup' message either.  I am using the adblock extension, though. It's mostly for blocking flash/img banners but might affect pop-up too.

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: firefox popups

Um.. I don't get a pop-up or even that "firefox has prevented..." message..?

Edit: It's probably because I have them covered by adblock, duh.

Edit 2: I disabled adblock and I still don't see anything. Huh..

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: firefox popups

at m-w, it only pops up if you search for a word. I noticed it at another site earlier, but I don't remember it now.

stonecrest: 200 posts even, cool.

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: firefox popups

I did search for a word but no pop-up, no firefox message. :?

murkus

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From: Europe/Helsinki

Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 254

Re: firefox popups

I did search for a word but no pop-up, no firefox message. :?

Me neither.

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shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

Posts: 1,142

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Re: firefox popups

I did search for a word but no pop-up, no firefox message. :?

Me neither.

Ditto.

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High|ander

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From: Skövde, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-28

Posts: 188

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Re: firefox popups

I get the popup-thing and firefox tries to prevent it

Running: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: firefox popups

No popup, no message, no adblock. Firefox did say something in the progress bar about a connection to media.fastclick.net, but that seemed to come to nought.

(Using 1.5 RC1.)

Dusty

Schwag Merchant

From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: firefox popups

Hmmm, I guess they are out to get me after all. Glad to know it wasn't just random paranoia..... :-S

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: firefox popups

Maybe you should look at your cookies, there might be something vile in there.

Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: firefox popups

1.5 Beta2 here, as it comes, no extra plugins extensions.
wordsearch at m-w results in "popup blocked" msg.
Nothing pops up.