[Charlug] Blocking Pop-Ups in Firefox

[Don Parris]

Thanks,

Apparently, it only happens on my laptop & the EeePC.  Ironically, I have no
problems at work (Firefox on WinXP, but behind firewall, proxy, various
filtering systems, etc.)

Don

On Feb 4, 2008 4:25 PM, Jack Hargett <njhargett at gmail.com> wrote:

>  No pop-ups here either... I use the No-Script plugin for Firefox.
>
> - Jack
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> Rick Pasotto wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:46:55AM -0500, Don Parris wrote:
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>  Hi all,
>
> I want to know if AdBlock Plus can handle pop-up ads.  If so, I'll
> install that.  I looked at the AdBlock Plus listing and the home page,
> but saw nothing about blocking pop-ups.  The Accuweather site manages
> to defeat Firefox's built-in pop-up blocker and is very annoying.
>
>
>  I get no popups when I visit Accuweather. Of course, I've got javascript
> disabled. Just for kicks I enabled javascript and all I got was a bunch
> of animated ads. Still no popups. Nor any local weather.
>
> I'm using seamonkey.
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