[Wolves] Firefox and pop up ad's

[Alan Pope]

On 05/11/05, James Turner <james at turnersoft.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 04 Nov 2005 23:49, Dick Turpin wrote:
> > On Friday 04 November 2005 23:17, Simon Morris wrote:
> > > I've noticed a slight increase on Linux - but I don't go to many popuppy
> > > sites.
> > >
> > > But on a few I've had unexpected popups.
> >
> > I've yet to experience this , I encourage my kids to use Linux for browsing
> > for this very reason I.e pop ups, etc..
> >
> > Plus I and my staff use Firefox at work for this very reason, this is very
> > disconcerting!
> >
> > You're not looking at that at that 'Naked Fish' site again are you?
>
> I can also report seeing a small number of popups starting to reappear. As I
> understand it, these adverts are able to bypass the popup blocker by opening
> them from within browser plugins, typically (but not necessarily) Flash.
>

If that's the case then get the flashblock plugin. It stops any flash
from playing until you click on it. Very good for stopping flashy
sites from making lots of noise and/or unnecessary flash downloads.

Cheers,
Al.