Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.

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From: Robert G. Werner
Subject: Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.
Date: 21:21 on 12 Mar 2006
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-03-12 11:05]:
>>> There have been more and more sites using flash to bypass the
>>> Firefox pop-up blocking;
>> Aha! That's why I don't see this, because flashblock keeps the
>> secret flash from running!
> 
> Some sites also use `onmousedown` or other such events to show
> popups, because the blocker lets those pass on the assumption
> that the're user-requested. So you get a popup when, say, you
> click into the text to select some of it. SitePoint is such an
> offender, f.ex.
> 
> Regards,
addblock or one of the variants might help in this case because you
could block the offending js file from loading (As long as they didn't
inline that function,  that is).

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