[ale] OT: FireFox, pop-up blocking

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Thu Feb 17 09:09:31 EST 2005


On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:15 pm, joh6nn wrote:
> yeah, i've dealt with it before.  the way they sneak through has to deal
> with the javascript events that are allowed go generate new windows.
> there's probably a better way to handle it, but what i did for my mom
> was to set it (by way of the tab prefs extension) so that all javascript
> windows would open in a new tab; that way, at the least, she'd know it
> wasn't a legitimate dialog

I looked on mozdev.org, but could not find an extension called "tabprefs" or 
one that looks like it does what you're saying.  Do you have a URL?



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