This preference would be set to false i.e. Now type popups in Search filter box and it’ll show following preference in the window:. It’ll show you a warning message, click on I accept the risk button.
When I check out whether or not it's good enough on a pop-up test website, one of the pop-up still manages to get through (the 2nd pop-up link still manages to either open a new window or a new tab, depending on whether you configured your browser to open link into a new tab instead of a new window). Open Mozilla Firefox and type about:config in the addressbar and press Enter. If I truly wanted to open it, I could bypass the pop-up blocker by either telling the browser to temporarily allow them, or click with the mouse wheel.Īlthough Firefox doesn't have any user friendly option like that, you can edit some configuration variables to prevent pop-ups from opening.īut that's still not good enough. However, nowadays, some unwanted pop-ups are bypassing that by appearing the instant you click on anything on the web page, which make the browser believe that you willingly tried to open it.īack when I used Internet Explorer 11, I could configure the browser to block any pop-up from appearing at all, whether I willingly tried to open it or not.
if you're not the one who initiated the action to open it, such as a click for example). Some questions have been asked before about blocking pop-ups, but they don't fit my needs of using the default browser options.īasically, Firefox has an integrated "block pop-up" option that you can check to prevent unwanted pop-up from appearing (e.g.
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