Table Of Contents
- What are Pop-ups?
- Pop-up Blocker Preferences
- Pop-ups not being blocked
- Is the pop-up coming from Firefox?
- Is the pop-up blocker on and enabled for this site?
- Is the pop-up shown after a mouse click or a key press?
- Is it a true pop-up window?
What are Pop-ups?
Pop-up windows, or pop-ups, are windows that appear automatically without your permission. They vary in size but usually don't cover the whole screen. Some pop-ups open on top of the current Firefox window, while others appear underneath Firefox (pop-unders).Firefox allows you to control both pop-ups and popunders through the Content panel in the Preferences window. Pop-up blocking is turned on by default, so you don't have to worry about enabling it to prevent pop-ups from appearing in Firefox.
When blocking a pop-up, Firefox displays an information bar, as well as an icon
When you click either the button in the information bar or the icon in the status bar, a menu is displayed with the following choices:
- Allow/Block pop-ups for this site
- Edit Pop-up Blocker Preferences…
- Don't show this message when pop-ups are blocked
- (show the blocked pop-up)
Blocking pop-ups may interfere with some websites: Some websites, including some banking sites, use pop-ups for important features. Blocking all pop-ups disables such features. To allow specific websites to use pop-ups, while blocking all others, you can add specific websites to the list of allowed sites. Blocking pop-ups doesn't always work: Although Firefox blocks most pop-ups, some websites may show pop-ups using uncovered methods, even when blocked.
Pop-up Blocker Preferences
To access the Pop-up Blocker settings:- On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu, and select Preferences....
- Select the Content panel.
- Block pop-up windows: De-select this preference to disable the pop-up blocker altogether.
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The dialog has the following choices:
- Allow: Click this to add a website to the exceptions list.
- Remove Site: Click this to remove a website from the exceptions list.
- Remove All Sites: Click this to remove all of the websites in the exceptions list.
: This is a list of sites that you want to allow to display pop-ups.
Pop-ups not being blocked
Is the pop-up coming from Firefox?
The pop-up may not actually be coming from Firefox. You can determine where the pop-up is coming from by the icons it has and the title at the top.- A Firefox icon and "Mozilla Firefox" in the title: keep reading below.
- Everything else: you may have malware on your computer that causes the pop-ups. Scan your computer for viruses and spyware.
Is the pop-up blocker on and enabled for this site?
- On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu, and select Preferences....
- Select the Content panel.
- Make sure the Block pop-up windows checkbox is checked.
- To the right of Block pop-up windows, click the button. A dialog will appear that shows all the sites that are allowed to show pop-ups.
- If the site that's opening pop-ups is in the list, select it and press .
- Close the Allowed Sites - Pop-ups window.
- Close the preferences window.
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