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[rubberskunk]

I'm getting popups in Firefox. Why am I getting popups in Firefox?

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[porsupah]

Hm! Whereabouts are you seeing these obnoxious intrusions?

This /. story may be pertinent - the essence is some "advertisers" are using Flash (in particular) to launch the ads, circumventing the usual pop-up detection mechanism. Perhaps simpler, though, in such cases, might be disabling javascript for such errant sites - that might also work quite well, as would, of course, disabling Flash in such cases.

(I normally run OmniWeb 5.1, but Firefox 1.0.2's easily downloaded for testing purposes, if necessary)

[rubberskunk]

I've had few problems with Firefox until just recently. I hear they're going to take a stab at fixing it. Maybe.

[momentrabbit]

You and me both - I've seen a few over the last few weeks. It's popular enough that it represents a large enough target to make coding exploits worthwhile.

The difference being, still, the Firefox developers are actively working to find ways to stop this uncouth behaviour from afflicting the end-user. IE.. not so much.

BTW: There's going to be a mess'o'patches for some of the Win-Tans tomorrow. Patch early, patch often..

[rubberskunk]

Patch early, patch often.

You and me both, you and me both.

[relee]

I got lots of popups on my last install of firefox.

Some web programmers are just really inventive. XD

[wolphin]

I get pop-unders, but no pop-ups. Annoying things.

[rubberskunk]

I think I'll be happy when my Internet is unburdened by things getting in my way.

...oh wait.