firefox popups

[jonneymendoza]

is it just me or is firefox becoming like IE.?? my firefox recieves has much popups has IE now, i never use toget popups on firefox but nw i get loads whats happening? is it just meor has any1 have this problem?

[Nox]

I keep getting a 'test your iq' one all the time now :/ but it is only that one.

Nox

[directhex]

firefox 1.0x have a relatively good popup blocker.

however, the popup companies have changed with the times - going to _EXTREME_ lengths to bring popups up on your system

the "adblock" extension does a better job with newer popups, as does firefox 1.5

[genie_wt]

Firefox 1.5 Beta doesn't get any, although it isn't quite as stable as 1.0.x

[jonneymendoza]

yea i bin getting that test ip crap on my firefox. very annoying

[JimmyBoy]

not just me then

i too get a fair few popups with firefox, noway near as bad as ie though, but still irritating

[unreal]

It's popups coming up through Flash - theres an extension I believe that stops this though.

[Tomahawk]

I have also been getting rather annoying pop-ups, and am on the lookout for an extension to stop/reduce them. So if anyone comes across one, a link would be much appreciated!..

I do have Adblock, but it generally is good for banner ads, and not so good for pop-up windows..

[Atomic]

I've got quite an extensive AdBlock lists and that stops pretty much everything now

[Xaneden]

Internet Explorer 7 beta seems more stable than 6, and has a great pop up blocker...

Just putting the idea out there.....

[iranu]

i've used every version of ff and I've never had a popup. Use 1.5 beta now that more extensions are out there for it.

[fredered]

i am using 1.5 at the moment and although popups are rare they still happen, i get the iq one quite a bit. The flash ones are the real annoyances though

[npk2005]

I'm also using 1.5 not had any excessive popups just the odd one.

[jamena]

Adblock is 5th in the list on the mozilla website - there's also a plugin for updating the filterset it uses

[Davey W]

is it just me or is firefox becoming like IE.?? my firefox recieves has much popups has IE now, i never use toget popups on firefox but nw i get loads whats happening? is it just meor has any1 have this problem?

Have you checked for spyware on your system?

I've caught at least one type that still uses iexplore.exe to open it's ads, even though I always use Firefox. I initially replaced iexplore.exe with an empty file (you have to remove the system flag before the exchange and put it back on the new file afterwards). But I later found that certain things I do still require IE and won't work properly with Firefox alone.

On the subject of it getting worse, I've had my plain explorer windows hijacked to display web content before.

[UltraMagnus]

i get very few popups on FF, and the advanced tab control plugin (or whatever its called) grabs half of them and turns them into new tabs