In the past week or two, I’ve seen a shocking increase in popups on Firefox.
And the tweak I published a few months ago to get rid of them does no good.
The funny thing is, anyone who advertises via popups goes, immediately, on my never-buy-anything-from-these-assholes list.
Ed Bott 
Ed, I think you had the right idea earlier this year when you suggested that Mozilla start a certification program for Firefox extensions. I’m not the only one whose extensions are broken with every update. Fortunately, I’m not passionate about browsers, so I use Maxthon and NetCaptor in the meantime.
Have you tried NoScript? I’ve seen them on the top-extensions list over at Mozilla Update multiple times, and even heard a few good reviews, but I’ve never tried it myself.
In my experience, such things end up being more trouble than they’re worth (ie: I spend more time telling it ‘allow this site’ than I do closing the popups that I’ve grown so reflexively to close), but YMMV.
I’d also love to see a review from you about it, since I respect your opinion more than any of the other handful of random people I’ve seen talk about it.
Ed,
Have you tried the Popups Must Die extension? It’s a bit of a pain in that you have to allow popups on every site you want them, but it’s better than the alternative.
Interesting you should say this…yesterday, I saw a Winfix dot com popup in Firefox 1.0.6 running under Suse Linux. I’m still investigating how that happened. First popup I’d seen in Firefox for months.
For winfix com in my last post about a Firefox popup read winfixer com – sorry – typo!
Ed,
your feed does not validate and RSSbandit refuces to retrieve the feed.
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PS. sorry, this is seriously off-topic, but I didn’t locate your email address….
Apo,
Thanks for the note. Your comment actually is on topic. The original title of this item contained a pair of characters that farkled the feed. As soon as I changed the title it revalidated, and it should be working now.
Thanks!
(Also, I’ll add an e-mail contact link to the sidebar.)
Ed
I have started getting more “empty” pop-ups in FF. I get a pop-up window that’s completely blank.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pop-ups_not_blocked
For blocking popups, I use the adblock extension. It is a nice tool for blocking ads, scripts, pop-ups/pop-unders and urls.
The biggest drawback with adblock is that I cannot store the adblock list in a central place where two or more browsers can use/update it – in my case, I use both Netscape and Firefox.
can you help me?
there are actually some popups i want but when they open they do so full screen and no amount of messing around will get them to the same size they should be
Winfixer in Trash. If you go to their Webmasters link you get to a place where you can create your own “winfix” fix “copy” and sell it to fix the original Winfix. But your fix doesn’t really fix it. and they guarantee big $$$
You’ll never believe it. So go read it.
Winfixer is also known to exploit the SessionSaver extension for the Firefox browser. If you are experiencing popups on every startup asking you to downliad winfixer, you should open your prefs.js file and delete all lines containing the word ‘winfixer’ (just do a search for the word and delete the whole lines). The prefs.js file is located at:
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings_username_\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles_profile_\prefs.js
Linux: ~.Firefox\Profiles_profile_\prefs.js
I Really dont think winfixer is good.
if you want to get rid of them popups there is a very good one called PopUpBlocker it has manual block Automatic And Agressive Block which means it blocks every iternet explorer that comes up on agressive unless you hold Ctrl.Smart eh?
I think it’s time that the winfixer company went belly up as they are driveing me mad. I think that they are the problem because the use under-hand means to get people to buy their software, i think that thease guys should be strung up or possibly executed by lethal injection then dumped on some scrap heap.