[ale] OT: FireFox, pop-up blocking

[Pete Hardie]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:02:48 -0500, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:
> 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?

IIRC, it's Tabbrowser Preferences - should be available from the
firefox main page->extenstions & themes link.
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