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Monday, August 13, 2007

How to block Flash Popups in Firefox?

Now a days most of the internet explorer users have been shifted to Mozilla FireFox regarding its user friendly nature and advanced features.But it is a fact that as most of the browsers,mozilla Firefox is also unable to block the Flash Popups.Here is simple technique which illustrate How to block flash popups in Firefox?

1.Open the Firefox and type about:config in the address bar.
2.Then Right click on the page and select "new" and then select "integer"
3.Name it as
privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4.Put the value to 2

The available integer values are

0-Allows all the popups from the plugins
1-Limit the popups
2-Will block popups from all plugins
3-Will block popups from all plugins and also from standard sites

Hope this technique for mozilla firefox might be helpful to you.

3 comments:

Andre said...

Obviously, this doesn't work anymore.

Tha best solution until now that I've found is BlockSite addon. It's lil' tricky to find out the url of an ad U want 2 block, but that surely works.

khmerever said...

flashblock add-ons can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

khmerever said...

flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433