Mitthrawnuruodo said:What has this post to do with pop-ups...? All I say is that FF has a fullscreen mode, and the follow up, #38, I show how similar Mail and FF is, designwise, and point out a couple of (non-critical) bugs in FF...
It shouldn't come as a surprise that I prefer Firefox, this post from late March (and another a couple of days later) is an updated (almost repost), of my initial reasons to use FF from back in November, here I state the main reason for "switching":...which I didn't even bother to add in the March-post, because Adblock is an essential extention (and the only one I've installed), and I later learned that Pihelmet adds similar functionality to Safari (essentialy the same ), thus making all the other reasons for staying with Firefox...
But, as so many are having problems, I did a little experiment... I turned off Adblock and re-entered the weather site and turned adblock back on and revisited, of course remembering to delete the sites cookies before and after, and just as I suspected, you need something like Adblock or Pithelmet. The reason I didn't mention Adblock in that thread was that I was getting really bored with reposts on the subject, and I mentioned Adblock in earlier threads on the same subject... Like this thread where I mention Adblock two times, and even specify that I haven't added any new filters...
To summarize my experiment: On the first screenshot Adblock is off, and although FF's built-in popup-blocker manages to prevent one, another sneeks by. The second shot shows the same site, with Adblock back on, and what do you know, the little b*stards gone. Then I opened the "all Adblock-able items"-window, and - surprise, surprise - a Flash ad from cdn.fastclick.net had been blocked, so I checked my Adblock prefs, and quite right, some time ago (well before the last month's pop-up contoversy) I had added a filter to take care of everything from cdn.fastclick.net, thus making me immune to pop-ups from them (for now)...
The moral of the story is: Maintain your Safari with Pithelmet or Firefox with Adblock, to take out flash-content from ad-sites (I rarely bother to take out gifs), and you are quite well protected against all those nasty flash-ads, both on-site ones and pop-ups...
...with some heavy filtering you can even avoid those div-"pop-ups" GodBless mentiones in the thread starter but it's very easy to filter out too much and "destroy" the rendering of the site... I did that with my old free SMS provider, but I just found a new provider which even had a higher daily limit, so that worked out just fine...
...and I'm still waiting for a site that requires me to add another filter...
Thanks for the explanation. I thought that you were purposefully denying that Firefox gets popups (or a popunder in this case) just because you preferred Firefox as your browser. That is why I linked others to different posts of yours about Firefox in general.
Now I see that you are using an extra plugin to get rid of certain popups and popunders. Now I know why you stated that you weren't getting a popunder from the weather site; not because you were denying the fact that you were getting a popunder but because you actually weren't getting a popunder because of your Firefox plugin. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
