Pop Tarts, Not Pop Ups or Popped Collars

August 3, 2005

As you all know, our beloved Firefox does a great job of blocking pop-ups.
However, some still get through, despite the default settings
These little buggers are from flash or java/javascript applets.

Luckily, there is a pretty easy fix:

  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

All of the possible values for privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins:
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.

That’s pretty much it. I haven’t tested this on pages where you request a pop-up (e.g. clicking an item to open a new window), but I guess I’ll get to that soon enough.

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Posted in Geekery

one more feather…

August 3, 2005

Wow. August is a bitch.

Aug 6-7: The Wife™ is in town.
Aug 13-15: Gretchen is in town ( woo! :) )
Aug 19-22: Trip to NYC.
Aug 26-28: Weekend in Austin at Dave + Belen‘s.
Aug 29-31: Working at/on our Houston office.

All this on top of day job (well, Houston is day-job stuff) and side-work.
no long rides for me :(

Eh, but, I want big things, and therefore must work for them. I understand this and am ok with it.

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Posted in Work