Firefox

goin'_to_the_PS

Has anyone noticed alot more pop ups on firefox, is it starting to eat itself?, is there an another browser

David19

Since more people are turning to firefox, the people who design popups and spyware etc are spending more time trying to infiltrate firefox. I imagine thats the case anyway.

Yes there's lots of browsers.

tba

lynx

Orionetheus

Opera is good once you..."aquire" a pro version. In other words once you pirate it. But I'm in love with Firefox I love the extensions and the bare bones style.

Creamy Goodness

i'd imagine when this is more and more widespread someone will make a plugin to combat the problem, sure look at adblock i don't see google ads anymore. maybe the author of adblock could develop something

Winters

Im sure there are more extensive popup blockers on update.mozilla.org if you look for them.

aidan_walsh

Orionetheus wrote:

Opera is good once you..."aquire" a pro version. In other words once you pirate it. But I'm in love with Firefox I love the extensions and the bare bones style.

Or, God forbid, you could actually part with money for something...

Orionetheus

I havent much paid for anything in the last year because I can't work here.

I don't use Opera. I cracked it to the pro version and didn't like it.

Try before you buy...I have the money for it in my quickly disapearing savings but I don't want to risk it being a bad product.

OfflerCrocGod

The latest nightly builds include new pop-up code but they are *very* unstable builds. Back up your profile before using them and start with a new one.

tba

how unstable?

zAbbo

*very*

Stark

They were quite stable for a while, but they're throwing in loads of stuff at the moment in preperation for the upcoming alpha so there are noticeable annoyances (mostly that some extensions don't work).

There was a backport of the 1.1 popup code for the 1.0.x series a while back called "Popups must die!". There's a version of it here dated April 1st - http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/experimental/popupsdie/ . I'm not sure if there's a more recent version. I remember the first version they released blocked a lot of legitimate popups such as the vBulletin private message popup and the like.

goin'_to_the_PS

has anyone actually read a pop up and availed of it, i just delete them without looking

jessy

Orionetheus wrote:

I havent much paid for anything in the last year because I can't work here.

I don't use Opera. I cracked it to the pro version and didn't like it.

Try before you buy...I have the money for it in my quickly disapearing savings but I don't want to risk it being a bad product.

There was no need to enter an illegal Registration key to try it, the only difference is the add support box in the top right corner. its really down to personal choice between Opera and firefox, IE don’t even come into the equation, at least not till IE7 appears.

@original poster
Any time I do use Fiefox I have noticed some more pop-ups now.

Civilian_Target

I'm not getting any popups or any stuff like that - I'm running Firefox with adblock extension...

Last time I ran adaware I was spyware-free too.

parasite

could someone post a link to a page that loads a popup, for curiosity's sake, or would it be incriminating ? :rolleyes:

you could experiment with different adblock filter lists & a more aggressive 'hosts' files

Mutant_Fruit

the problem is (i believe) popups can now be put in flash banners and other similar flash things. And currently firefox can't stop those, as they aren't typical HTTP popups.

MartMax

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

the problem is (i believe) popups can now be put in flash banners and other similar flash things. And currently firefox can't stop those, as they aren't typical HTTP popups.

and these ads also eat a lot of resources.

btw, try www.tvtome.com with firefox.
on its page click any link of subpages.
then a pop-up comes up.
thou firefox warns it's blocking a pop-up.
i can't figure out how to block this.

Stark

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

the problem is (i believe) popups can now be put in flash banners and other similar flash things. And currently firefox can't stop those, as they aren't typical HTTP popups.

The popup blocking code in the trunk (1.1 series) builds stops these.

Skud

the best thing to do to stop the flash ads is get a extension called flash block, this shows a button instead of flash ads so u can view it if u really want. Adblock can be a pain sometimes stopping mime types.

Spunog UIE

mart_max wrote:

and these ads also eat a lot of resources.

btw, try www.tvtome.com with firefox.
on its page click any link of subpages.
then a pop-up comes up.
thou firefox warns it's blocking a pop-up.
i can't figure out how to block this.

no pop ups at all. Which links? seem to have tried them all. Not a pop up or ad in sight with mine.

MartMax

Gideon wrote:

no pop ups at all. Which links? seem to have tried them all. Not a pop up or ad in sight with mine.

oh mine. it's gone now. weird, it was there all the time before. i swear! :eek:

but at least now no pop-ups. i hope it lasts.

Khannie

Orionetheus wrote:

Opera is good once you..."aquire" a pro version. In other words once you pirate it. But I'm in love with Firefox I love the extensions and the bare bones style.

2 day ban because you're not a regular. Would have been a week otherwise.

Read the charter sticky.

Fenster

There are a very, very few sites, I find, whose pop-unders get pass Firefox's blocker, but everything else is squished. I recall the Mozilla dev team acknowledgeing this and promising to look into creating a stronger blocker in upcoming builds.

Oh, and avoid nighty builds unless you're really, really, really sure what you're at. I managed to poop out and entire chrooted part of my system with one a few weeks back that decided to eat all my memory.

rsynnott

goin'_to_the_PS wrote:

has anyone actually read a pop up and availed of it, i just delete them without looking

It's similar to spam. The economics of popups are such that if even one in ten thousand clicks, you're making money. It's a dirty business.