[ale] [Fwd: Re: [ale] OT: Small gripe (How to disable pop-ups in Mozilla)]

Michael E. Barker mbarker68 at home.com
Thu Jan 24 17:17:00 EST 2002


"Michael E. Barker" wrote:
> 
> Ken Nagorski wrote:
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Small gripe (How to disable pop-ups in Mozilla)
> > From: "Ken Nagorski" <kenn at refriedgeek.com>
> > To: db at stayonline.net
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I use Mozilla in linux and I added this to the prefs.js file
> >
> > user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ken
> >
> > > I think galeon has that nice anti-popup feature :)
> > >
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 13:00, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > >> It appears to me that sites like Ebay have realized that people have
> > >> become immune to banners now.  Only pop-ups will do.  I've notice
> > >> sometimes when I'm doing nothing on my PC that a web page will pop-up
> > >> out from no where.    I know Kazaa does this.  Maybe real audio too.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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> > But I don't want to go among mad people,
> > Alice remarked.
> > Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat:
> > we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
> > How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
> > You must be, said the Cat,
> > or you wouldn't have come here.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > But I don't want to go among mad people,
> > Alice remarked.
> > Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat:
> > we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
> > How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
> > You must be, said the Cat,
> > or you wouldn't have come here.
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> That works like a charm.  I went to yahoo, weather, and cnn and enjoyed
> pop-up free browsing after that fix.
> 
> -Michael
> 
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Oops, spoke too soon.  I left cnn.com up and their little timed popup
thingy found its way around this fix?!?

-Michael

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