Firefox about:config setting tweak


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Okay, heres the deal.

Couple of months ago i came across a very handy tip that sum1 had posted on the forum regarding firefox and pop up/under windows. Basically it involved going into the about:config section of firefox and either creating a new string or integer (forget which one-sorry) or changing either an existing one (again, i forget which one)

Basically, once i had done it, i found it worked perfectly and blocked all popups period-including flash windows and even file download prompts(which i could consequently allow by clicking on the alert bar at the top and selecting 'allow popups for site XYZ. this would then add it to the list of allowed sites in the options)- Obviously this may not be convinient for some users as they may want sum popups but it wrked exactly to my needs.

The problem is i had to format and reinstall and obviously, these custom settings were lost. Remebering how well the tip wrked, after the reinstall i promptly started browsing the forum in search of that post agen not remembering which sub forum i came across it in as it was long ago. You may have noticed how poor my memory is by now.

I have searched high and low through the forum trying all manner of search combinations and cannot find it. Its doin my head in because im reluctant to install something such as adblock wen this little tweak wrked so well for my needs.

I would be very grateful if somebody could give a link to that post, be it on here or another forum or better yet, jus tell me what the tweak was. I hurridly searched mozzilazine with no luck aswell. I was using 1.0.1 at the time and have been using 1.0.4 since reinstall.

Hope im not bein too much of a slag. :blush: ty in advance for ne help

Fuze38

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To block pop-ups from plugins, open your Firefox 1.0 or 1.0.1 browser, type about:config in the address field. Right-click in the resulting config page somewhere and select New -> Interger. Type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the resulting dialog, hit OK, type 2 in the next dialog and you're all set.

This pref can actually take three values:

0: open allowed

1: the opened windows are treated as popups, but they're allowed to open (we limit the number of these types of popups)

2: the window is a popup, block it

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lol. thanx for that supernova but ive alredy dun that one. and it doesnt prevent all pop ups as i still get some. the one im referring to stops all pop ups end of. after i had dun it, i never saw another pop up agen.

any more ideas, anyone??

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adblock helps with popups/unders too, I know it's not a popular extension these days on Neowin. But all you have to do is disable it while you are here. It's fast and easy to do. And I never get popups.

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yea fair do's Ice, but like i said, this particular tweak worked so well, i jus find it overkill and pointless to install sumthing such as adblock, even tho it is good from wot ive herd, wen the setting wrked perfectly for my needs

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Theres actually loads of pages that manage to get their popups through. Cant remember the Url's rite now as a dont normally use those sites regularly (ironically due to the fact that the popups annoy me so much) but as soon as i stumble across them again, ill post.

Thanx for the help and taking the time to look at how they get through

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Not sure but these may be some of the other preferences:

browser.link.open_external 3
1: Open in current window (default)
2: Open in new window
3: Open in new tab

browser.link.open_newwindow 1
1: Open in current window
2: Open in new window (default)
3: Open in new tab

browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 2
0: Divert everything (default)
1: Divert target="_blank" etc. but not window.open
2: Divert everything expect window.open with three parameters

privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins 2
0: open allowed
1: limits their number to dom.popup_maximum (even with popup blocker disabled)
2: the window is a popup, block it
3: blocks them even on whitelisted sites

dom.disable_open_during_load true
True (default): Block popup windows created while the page is loading
False: Allow popup windows

browser.block.target_new_window true (deprecated?)
True: Links with target set to _blank will open in the current tab instead of a new window.
False: Links with target set to _blank will open in a new window.
Posted by: Tar on March 8, 2005 05:48 AM

Extention that may have been mentioned bfore but can be usefull. http://preferential.mozdev.org/

Two different pages on about:config entries:

Here

and

Here too

Some of the above settings do not directly effect popups but since they have some effect on new windows they do relate.

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