Is Microsoft's service pack messing with Firefox pop-up blocker?
August 12, 2004 4:08 PM Subscribe
MS Conspiracy Filter: Just installed XP SP2--which adds "pop-up blocking" to IE--and all of a sudden the pop-up blocking feature built into Firefox turns off every time I restart the app. Is anyone else seeing this? [little bit more inside]
It's almost giving MS too much credit, so I'm not really thinking this was done on purpose, but it almost seems like too neat of a coincidence to just be chance. I wouldn't be surprised if they big-footed some kind of registry entry or something by making believe Firefox doesn't exist.
I'm certain of the timing...I use Firefox all day, every day, and I haven't seen pop-ups for months now. I installed SP2 two days ago, and all of a sudden, every time I start Firefox, the "Block Pop-ups" check box is off. This is really annoying, and I'm trying to figure out whether it's a weird bug with my specific system, or more widespread.
It's almost giving MS too much credit, so I'm not really thinking this was done on purpose, but it almost seems like too neat of a coincidence to just be chance. I wouldn't be surprised if they big-footed some kind of registry entry or something by making believe Firefox doesn't exist.
I'm certain of the timing...I use Firefox all day, every day, and I haven't seen pop-ups for months now. I installed SP2 two days ago, and all of a sudden, every time I start Firefox, the "Block Pop-ups" check box is off. This is really annoying, and I'm trying to figure out whether it's a weird bug with my specific system, or more widespread.
Response by poster: Good point--if I write it into the user.js, it should override the prefs.js, am I right? I'll look into that.
I couldn't imagine what a service pack could do to make that happen, either--the timing was just too strange, though.
posted by LairBob at 4:25 PM on August 12, 2004
I couldn't imagine what a service pack could do to make that happen, either--the timing was just too strange, though.
posted by LairBob at 4:25 PM on August 12, 2004
Haven't seen anything like that myself, no.
posted by gramcracker at 5:47 PM on August 12, 2004
posted by gramcracker at 5:47 PM on August 12, 2004
Do you happen to have TabBrowser Extensions installed on your copy of Firefox? I found that it seems to step on Firefox's pop-up settings for some reason.
posted by kindall at 8:20 PM on August 12, 2004
posted by kindall at 8:20 PM on August 12, 2004
No effect here either. Pop up blocking remains, blocked. I wonder about the outrage of marketing departments everywhere.
Unfortunately sp2 didn't remove the hijack that is attached to my IE. I must use IE on occassion to test the web pages I build for clients.
posted by juiceCake at 8:47 AM on August 13, 2004
Unfortunately sp2 didn't remove the hijack that is attached to my IE. I must use IE on occassion to test the web pages I build for clients.
posted by juiceCake at 8:47 AM on August 13, 2004
No.
Try moving your profile directory so Firefox is forced to start with a clean profile. I guarantee that the problem is either with your profile or with that particular Firefox build.
posted by azazello at 1:30 PM on August 13, 2004
Try moving your profile directory so Firefox is forced to start with a clean profile. I guarantee that the problem is either with your profile or with that particular Firefox build.
posted by azazello at 1:30 PM on August 13, 2004
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posted by majick at 4:19 PM on August 12, 2004