RSSMozilla Testing Block for New Popups
By Nate Mook | Published April 4, 2005, 9:59 PM
Mozilla developers have begun testing a patch for Firefox that blocks a new breed of pop-up advertisements that bypass traditional pop-up blockers. Instead of being spawned by JavaScript code, the new pop-ups load from within third-party plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash or Sun's Java.
Although Firefox has had the capability to block such ads since 1.0, no option existed to enable it. The beta patch, which loads as a Firefox extension, changes that and includes a whitelist for sites that require pop-ups from plug-ins. Mozilla developer Asa Dotzler announced the patch in his Web log, asking for feedback from users.
So far, this has worked fine. It has blocked pop-under ads on sites that I visit.
If it won't open a link, you simply right click and open in new window. works like a charm.
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|Due to it being a little overzealous with its blocking, I disabled it. Firefox now loads, but freezes, and then eventually crashes.
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|It seemed like a good idea but I found that I was running into one web page after another where links would not open without the page being white listed. The benefits seem to be outweighed by the hassle in common web surfing.
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|i've tested it. it blocks REQUESTED pop-ups sometimes.
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|Its called Adblock
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|It's not called adblock, adblock does not block pop ups. I have been experiencing certain pop ups that I couldnt figure out how to block, this seems to work very well at stopping them. Another instance of open source software doing what it is supposed to.
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|word! i agree with this guy on this...
good to see mozilla putting the lockdown on most popups...
AND to those that complain about it now blocking pretty much ALL websites... WTF!!?!?! in some cases its a really fine line between a 'necessary' popup, and advertising...
firefox warns you when it blocks popups in a site and if you want that site to have popups enabled then just add it to a whitelist. i couldn't think of a better way to do it!
a note of concern though... some ppl have been complaining that firefox has gotten kinda quirky and unstable since 1.0 - i personally didn't experience anything like that until last night when it randomly crashed... there might be some basis for this although its weird that all they changed was 2 security fixes...
anyway go FIREFOX! :)
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|This news is 5 days old, and the reason i'm complaining about it is that this has prooven bugs but for some reason all the tech sites picked up on it today. This extension while great has certean issues and only modifies a few settings arleady within firefox.
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|What doesn't have bugs? Thats why software is continually updated and improved.
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|Now that you bring up AdBlock: it even blocks some video streams one clicks on when they're commercial in nature......
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|I doubt it's the same as adblock, although this new version of Firefox and the adblock extension will surely give advertising companies something to think about..
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|Installed the extension and it works so far...No interference with adblock.
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