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Browser tip of the day: Block Flash Popups in Firefox
by Jason Clarke Aug 3rd 2005 at 11:11AM
This is a really simple tip, but also very helpful. If you don't like unwanted popups (and if they're "unwanted," I'm betting you don't), check out this very simple tip to stop them. Basically, Firefox has pretty good built-in popup blocking, but some people found that they could use Flash to initiate a popup window, circumventing Firefox's protection. This is the reason you may be experiencing those unwanted popups. But Firefox has a built-in ability to prevent plugins like Flash from creating popup windows - you simply have to turn it on. Pete Bevin has the details. 
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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wormeyman said 2:57PM on 8-03-2005
Asa dotzler the mozilla community manager published tweak if you want to link to the origional sources... months ago just like this was posted months ago.
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