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Allowed pop-ups on Mozilla

by jpnelson Sep 27, 2006 1:53PM PDT

We're running Mozilla 1.7.8 on XP SP2 and have a question regarding allowed pop-ups. Under the edit/preferences/privacy & security/pop up windows/allowed sites tab, web sites that have never been visited are listed. We have pop up blocker enabled on Mozilla, as well as with Norton Internet Security. We have no problems with pop ups appearing, but some of the allowed sites are disturbing, particularly match.com. How do these sites get on the list, and how can I prevent them? Needless to say, my spouse is not impressed by this either. Please help me alay any unfounded suspicions!

Regards,

Jim

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by mart44 Sep 27, 2006 7:30PM PDT

I can't suggest how the popups got onto the 'allowed' list if they haven't been whitelisted by anyone using the computer. Maybe it happened by mistake, or when some other site was visited. I never underestimate the fact that devious things can happen while browsing the Internet.

Since you prefer the Mozilla Suite, my suggestion would be to use Seamonkey instead. This is the Suite developed under another name. It has had a number of fixes and enhancements since the Seamonkey team took the project over. I don't know if that would make a difference to unwanted popup permissions being given but if there was something allowing this in Mozilla 1.7.8, perhaps a fix has been done in Seamonkey.

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