 Firefox, New Behaviour |
Welcome Guest ( Log In | Click here to Register a free account now! )
Register a free account to unlock additional features at BleepingComputer.com
Welcome to Bleeping Computer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.| Important Announcement: We have two terrific contests running on the site that I wanted all our members and guests to know about. The first contest is the HP Magic Giveaway, which is underway as of November 28th. More information can be found at this topic, which will be updated very soon with further information. The second contests, is for the chance to win two Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives. More information about this contest can be found here. These are both amazing contests and I suggest everyone submit an entry for them. - BleepingComputer Management |
  |
 Aug 15 2006, 02:06 AM
Post
#1
|
|
 The Bookworm  Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150  |
Personally, I find it a little annoying - but others might like it. Orange Blossom 
-------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
 |
 
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 06:28 AM
Post
#2
|
|
 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,875 Joined: 25-November 04 From: Finland Member No.: 5,870 |
What do you mean new? Has it not been doing it all along?
-------------------- "Anyone who cannot form a community with others, or who does not need to because he is self-sufficient [...] is either a beast or a god." Aristotle
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ | ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe | 2GB Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO | Gigabyte GeForce 8800GTX | Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS | ASUS PhysX P1 | Logitech G15 | Logitech MX Revolution | LG Flatron L2000C | Logitech Z-5500 Digital Stubborn attempts to think clearly |
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 07:00 AM
Post
#3
|
|
|
The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
Not with Firefox on my computer, or at the university either. Not until the most recent update. Firefox blocked pop-ups yes, but I've never seen that bar at the top before, and there is a site I go to at least once a month that has a pop-up about finance charge information which was always simply blocked without any fanfare: no bars, no sounds, no nothing, just blocked - maybe just a quick flash as it was blocked, but that was it.
Orange Blossom p.s. I thought I'd posted this in the Web-browsing forum. This post has been edited by Orange Blossom: Aug 15 2006, 07:04 AM -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 07:27 AM
Post
#4
|
|
 Bleeping GloDiva Group: Members Posts: 7,479 Joined: 25-April 04 From: As always I'm beside myself ;) Member No.: 228 |
 This is what it looks like on mine. I have had it since I installed Fx on my new comp last winter. So it was before any recent upgrade. Strange that you never seen it before Orange Blossom, unless of course you are not surfing to sites that have them. IDK I do know that even though it seems to work pretty good, I still have pop ups that land in my sys tray and have had pop unders. I guess it doesn't prevent those. This post has been edited by Scarlett: Aug 15 2006, 07:28 AM --------------------  |
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 07:38 AM
Post
#5
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 12-August 06 From: North of Hadrians Wall. Member No.: 80,484 |
Orange Blossom , displaying a message at the top of the browser window when a popup has been blocked is the firefox default setting. This makes me think that before you updated firefox , you has this "info bar" option turned off and the update has restored it.
I seem to remember that when the bar appears there should be a preferences button in the infobar which allows you to select “Don’t show this message when popups are blocked” . The other , more technical option is to ( in firefox ) go to the URL: about:config Search for the preference privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage. Double-click on it, which should modify the value to false. ( default is true ). |
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 07:57 AM
Post
#6
|
|
|
The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
No wonder Mr. Alpha was puzzled.
I have multiple pop-up protection on my PC, the browser itself, My ZoneAlarm Privacy Suite which is new so that's not the reason I haven't had pop-ups or pop-up bars in FireFox, Ad-Aware's Ad-Watch Pop-up Blocker... Hey, I wonder if that's it! I didn't have Ad-Watch on when that happened. I'd unloaded it to make some registry changes and didn't load it back up before I went on line again - gulp, a big oops on my part. I don't like leaving that protection off. I'll visit the site again with it ON and see what happens. Nope, that wasn't it. I got FireFox's pop-up bar this time, for only the second time in my experience - and yes it is like the one in your picture Scarlett. Something's different, but what?  Orange Blossom
-------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 08:17 AM
Post
#7
|
|
|
The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
QUOTE(FifeFlyer @ Aug 15 2006, 08:38 AM)  ... displaying a message at the top of the browser window when a popup has been blocked is the firefox default setting ... go to the URL: about:config Search for the preference privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage. Double-click on it, which should modify the value to false. ( default is true ). Yep, that was it  . I went to about:config saw that the value was true and changed to false. Bar is now gone. This also tells me the University has Firefox set to keep the bar from showing also, unless it recently got changed. I'll have to check and see. Hmm. I wonder what I did to change it before? I didn't know about "about:config" until the animating smilie problem I had a couple weeks ago or so. Thanks FifeFlyer, mystery solved  .Orange Blossom
This post has been edited by Orange Blossom: Aug 15 2006, 08:19 AM -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 08:59 AM
Post
#8
|
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 12-August 06 From: North of Hadrians Wall. Member No.: 80,484 |
You're most welcome.
|
|
|
|
|
Aug 15 2006, 09:11 AM
Post
#9
|
|
|
Bleeping GloDiva Group: Members Posts: 7,479 Joined: 25-April 04 From: As always I'm beside myself ;) Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE PopupTest.com provides a simple and independent source for popup window testing. Whether you are developing a popup killer software or you are thinking about purchasing one, you can use our sample popups to test the effectiveness of the application. We are providing samples of the most common popup styles, as well as some not so common ones (as indicated). http://www.popuptest.com/ A safe site for testing.
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
Aug 20 2006, 05:16 PM
Post
#10
|
|
|
The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 5,082 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
Thanks for the pop-up test page Scarlett. I tried it out, and I didn't get even one popup while using the Firefox browser. (I haven't tried it in IE because I don't use that browser unless I absolutely have to). I have deduced that this is partly because I do not have Java enabled in my browser, and also because of my privacy settings in the firewall which I have set to block all mobile scripts by default. My system does block some of the "good" pop-ups, but the site will always tell me if there is a pop-up with information that I need and I simply change my settings for that page or website, or do the work around to get the information. An example is the 'how finance charges are calculated' information on the site I visit at least once a month.
My Ad-Watch statistics say that it has blocked 25 pop-ups: I'm not certain of the time frame involved, but it is clear that my multiple layer approach against pop-ups is definitely working. Orange Blossom
This post has been edited by Orange Blossom: Aug 20 2006, 05:20 PM -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
|
|
|
|
Aug 20 2006, 08:48 PM
Post
#11
|
|
|
Bleeping GloDiva Group: Members Posts: 7,479 Joined: 25-April 04 From: As always I'm beside myself ;) Member No.: 228 |
And your so welcome. -------------------- |
|
|
|
|
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
| Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 4th December 2008 - 04:47 PM |
© 2003-2008 All Rights Reserved Bleeping Computer LLC.