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April 05, 2005
Mozilla Needs Help Testing Pop-up Blocker
A lot of people have been reporting a new breed of pop-ups on the web. This increasing menace is rooted in the pop-up capabilities of plug-ins like flash and Java. If you're seeing pop-ups and pop-unders, you're probably visiting sites that have flash or other plug-ins and those plug-ins are being exploited by advertisers to abuse you with annoying pop-ups and pop-unders.
Firefox has the capability to disable these pop-ups but it wasn't enabled by default in Firefox 1.0 because we had concerns about websites that rely on plug-in triggered pop-ups for legitimate functionality.
Give that these pop-ups and pop-unders have really started to spread on the web, we're testing a quick patch that enables the Firefox pref to block them. I blogged about this earlier this month and included manual steps to disable these nasty pop-ups and pop-unders. In addition to this fix, the good news is that for sites where you need these pop-ups, you can just whitelist them like you do other "wanted" pop-ups. This looks (at this stage) like a reasonable trade off.
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Posted on April 5, 2005 10:28 AM by Spam B86.
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I get the same Grrr message.
So far I have disabled all my security settings in IE and allowed pop ups in the Google Tool bar, checked my anti virus which does not have anti pop up capability and I STILL get this error message.
Happens everytime I try to click on a link in an email....
Getting over it, anyone know how to fix this?
Posted by: Zac at May 29, 2007 11:34 PM
I tried everything too and got stuck. Just found the answer on another site. Check that Norton Internet Security is not blocking pop-ups. That's yet another place that might block them. So in all, most people have at least 3 pop-up blockers: 1.the browser (IE, Firefox etc), 2.Yahoo or Google toolbar and 3.Norton
Posted by: Ric at April 6, 2007 01:40 AM
BLOCKED HOW TO REMOVE
Posted by: prabhu at February 16, 2007 06:05 AM
I am trying to find out how I can allow gmail popups to come up on Mozilla Firefox/2.0b2, I have turned off the popup blocker and that did not help. I added mail.goggle.com to the allowed popups and I still get the "Grrr! A popup blocker may be preventing Gmail from opening the page. If you have a popup blocker, try disabling it to open the window."
What is interesting is I get the same message on Internet Explorer, and I have the popup blocker turned off and pretty much the same settings that I can make the same as Firefox.
I have looked to see if I have the Google toolbar that prevents thing on both browsers but I cannot find it. I really do not know where to go next.
Posted by: Jared at September 23, 2006 08:26 AM
