Pop-ups in Firefox again?

[sailor]

Found this at digg.com:

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:

1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

The possible values are:

* 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
* 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
* 2: Block popups from plugins.
* 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

[Knudson]

cool =)

thanx ^_^

[amessina]

excellent work. by the way, how do people discover things in this about:config menu? i mean, how do i know what they all mean?

[fpoole]

Cheers for the tip!

[sailor]

excellent work. by the way, how do people discover things in this about:config menu? i mean, how do i know what they all mean

Hell if I know...there must be documentation somewhere...I usually find these tips at slashdot.org or digg.com

[macgregor]

Heh, good thing I use flashblock :)

[powereds]

Thanks for the tip :D

[fpoole]

Heh, good thing I use flashblock :)

They can't use the Flash trick on FF i686 users, because we have no flash. :mad:

[Shadow Skill]

sure you i686 people have flash its the 64bit that doesn't have flash. Its annoying as hell since I run a pure 64bit system luckily I don't have to fudge my own installs since Opera seems to only distribute the 32bit binaries anyway. If I need to see a site that uses flash I just view it in Opera.

[sayeeth]

Found this at digg.com:

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:

1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

The possible values are:

* 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
* 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
* 2: Block popups from plugins.
* 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

Thanks for the tip dude. Apparently, I just checked on Deer Park Alpha 2 and this option is enabled by default. I believe Firefox 1.5 will have this option too.