[olug] Mozilla 1.3b -- Where's my popup blocker?!?

Brian Wiese bwiese at cotse.com
Thu Mar 6 04:32:15 UTC 2003


Ok, yeah - thanks.  I wasn't looking so much at javascript, looking more
for a regular checkbox like in Phoenix.  I think I found this once before
though actually... =)

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:59:16 -0800 (PST)
Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com> wrote:

|Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts and Plugins -> Open unrequested
|windows.
|
|eric
|
|--- Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
|> Could you be more specific?...
|> I'm runing Mozilla 1.2.1 on Debian, and I can't find that setting
|> anywhere... I loved Phoenix, now I come back to mozilla (suppored
|> bring up
|> 'in background' in tabbed window option) but they don't support popup
|> add
|> blocking?
|> 
|> Popups also bug me in opera, honestly - I haven't looked around
|> enough yet
|> to see if I can turn them off...
|> 
|> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:53:15 -0800
|> "Jacobs, Robert A." <RAJACOBS at northropgrumman.com> wrote:
|> 
|> |Found it.  They moved it under Privacy.
|> |
|> |>-----Original Message-----
|> |>From: Jacobs, Robert A. 
|> |>Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:34 AM
|> |>To: olug at olug.org
|> |>Subject: [olug] Mozilla 1.3b -- Where's my popup blocker?!?
|> |>
|> |>
|> |>A fellow oluger at work notified me of this and I'm wondering if
|> anyone
|> |>else has seen it or has an answer:
|> |>
|> |>After installing the latest version of Mozilla (1.3b), we've 
|> |>noticed that
|> |>the option to disable the ability for browsers to "Open 
|> |>Unrequested Windows"
|> |>(i.e. block pop-ups) is no longer available?  Needless to say, 
|> |>I fell back
|> |>to my 1.2 version -- I can't stand the idea of surfing without
|> pop-up
|> |>blocking in place.
|> |>
|> |>Is this a bug?  Does anyone know?  If this is not a bug, do any of
|> the
|> |>Mozilla-based browsers (Galeon, Phoenix, etc.) still support pop-up
|> |>blocking?
|> |>
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