Popups in - about:mozilla firefox

From time to time (not site dependent?), I will get a popup. These popups
always have a title bar of "about:mozilla firefox ".

I have popups turned off in the options and only 2 sites have popup permission,
comcast and windowsbbs.

Are these coming from the mozilla site?
Is there a way to turn them off?

thanks
savagcl

 

clif,

I've never seen that happen, however, the next time it happens to you, would you post the link for the page you're viewing?

Thanks!

 

Will be glad to do just that - standby.

savagcl

 

I found this on another forum. It might be what you're looking for??

Disable Flash Pop-ups


Many users are switching to Firefox
because it’s less of a target (for now)
to spyware authors. Nevertheless, even
with the pop-up blocker turned on,
Firefox browsing can still result in
seemingly random pop-under and pop-up
ads that feel like an adware infiltration.
In fact, what’s happening is that some
Flash-based ads are able to thwart the
pop-up protection in Firefox by
addressing the Flash plug-in directly.
To eliminate this behavior, type
about:config in the Firefox address
bar to bring up the advanced configuration
settings. Right-click in the main window
and click New and Integer. In the first
box that comes up,
type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
and then click OK. In the second box,
type 2 and click OK. This should prevent
Flash pop-up ads.

 

That certainly sounds like whats happening.

I'll give it a try.

Thanks a bunch, jw25,
savagcl

 

reporting back.

Havent had a popup since i put that fix in so i guess it works. 2 days and not
1 popup.

savagcl

 

I had a feeling that might have been what you were looking for. Glad it helped and thanks for the feedback
JW