Pop-Up problems

[jnelsoninjax]

OK, all of the sudden yesterday I installed the addon, yes pop up, but quickly uninstalled it, but now I am plagued by every site that I visit with links, refuse to open, FF nicely informs me that it blocked a pop-up, of course I allow the sites that I want, but how do I disable this totally? I've never had this issue until yesterday!

[redvamp128]

try creating a new firefox profile--

See if it is profile related or an issue with firefox itself.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#...g_a_new_profile

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_dat...ofile_-_Firefox

I would just try that to see if it is a Firefox Profile issue

[jnelsoninjax]

That did the trick, thanks! :D

[kimsland]

You may want to update to a more secure Hosts file

There's lots of important info on that here: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

As it's difficult to see the actual download, here it is: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

Important! Windows Vista requires special instructions: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsvista.htm

Simply download the hosts.zip file, extract, then run mvps.bat, then restart

[important Notice - 2K/XP/Vista Users]

In most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to slow down the machine. This only occurs

in W2000 and XP. Windows 98 and Windows ME are not affected.

To resolve this issue (manually) open the "Services Editor"

Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)

Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties

Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"

Select: Manual, click Apply/Ok and restart.

Then restart, and test browsing the Internet again :)

[jnelsoninjax]

In 7 there is no host file. The problem was corrected by changing the profile.

Edited August 19, 2009 by jnelsoninjax

[kimsland]

In 7 there is no host file.

As I don't have Windows 7, I can't fully confirm this. But I am thinking that it does exist

I have not googled, but please run %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\ and confirm it isn't there. Is it?