Pop-up blocker settings, exceptions and troubleshooting

This document explains all of the settings available in Mozilla Firefox for decision-making popular-ups.

Table of Contents

  • 1 What are pop-ups?
  • 2 Pop-up blocker settings
  • three Popular-ups non being blocked
    • 3.1 Is the pop-up coming from Firefox?
    • 3.ii Is the pop-up blocker on and enabled for this site?
    • 3.3 Is the pop-upwardly shown after a mouse click or a fundamental press?
    • iii.iv Is it a true pop-up window?
    • 3.v Mozilla surveys

What are pop-ups?

Pop-upwardly windows, or pop-ups, are windows that appear automatically without your permission. They vary in size merely usually don't cover the whole screen. Some pop-ups open up on superlative of the electric current Firefox window, while others appear underneath Firefox (pop-unders).

Firefox allows you to control both pop-ups and popular-unders in Firefox Options Preferences Settings . Pop-upwardly blocking is turned on by default, and then you don't take to worry about enabling information technology to forbid pop-ups from appearing in Firefox.

When blocking a pop-upwardly, Firefox displays an information bar (if it hasn't been previously dismissed – see below), as well as an icon popup_icon_fx57 in the address bar.

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When you click either the Options Preferences  push button in the info bar or the icon in the address bar, a bill of fare is displayed with the following choices:

  • (show the blocked popular-upwards)

Blocking popular-ups may interfere with some websites: Some websites, including some cyberbanking sites, use pop-ups for important features. Blocking all pop-ups disables such features. To allow specific websites to utilise pop-ups, while nonetheless blocking all others, you tin add those specific websites to the listing of allowed sites.

Blocking pop-ups doesn't always work: Although Firefox blocks most pop-ups, some websites may evidence pop-ups using uncovered methods, even when they are blocked.

Pop-upwardly blocker settings

To access the pop-upwards blocker settings:

  1. In the Carte bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the menu button Fx57Menu and select . Click the menu push Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. Select the panel.
  • Under the Permissions section, uncheck the box next to Block pop-upwards windows to disable the pop-up blocker altogether.
  • A click on Exceptions… opens a dialog box with a list of sites that you lot desire to permit to brandish popular-ups.
  • The dialog box offers you the following choices:
    Allowed Websites Pop-ups
Allow: Click this to add a website to the exceptions list.
Remove Website: Click this to remove a website from the exceptions listing.
Remove All Websites: Click this to remove all of the websites in the exceptions list.

Notation: Blocking popular-ups may not always work and may interfere with some websites. For more information, come across the What are Popular-ups? section above.

Pop-ups not existence blocked

Is the popular-upward coming from Firefox?

The pop-up may non actually exist coming from Firefox. You lot can make up one's mind where the pop-up is coming from by the appearance of the window.

  • If y'all see the address bar with the Tracking Protection button and the Site Identity push button (a shield and a padlock) in the pop-upwardly window, the pop-up is coming from Firefox.
  • If you don't run into these buttons, you lot may accept malware on your figurer that causes the pop-ups. For assist, encounter Troubleshoot Firefox bug acquired by malware.

Is the popular-upwards blocker on and enabled for this site?

  1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the carte push Fx57Menu and select . Click the menu button Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. Select the panel and become to the Permissions section.
  3. Make certain the Cake pop-up windows checkbox is checked.
  4. To the right of Block pop-up windows, click the Exceptions… push button. A dialog box volition open with a listing of sites that are allowed to show pop-ups.
  5. If the site that's opening popular-ups is listed here, select information technology and printing Remove Website.
  6. Click on Save Changes to update your changes.
  7. Shut the nigh:preferences folio. Any changes you've made will automatically exist saved.

Is the pop-up shown afterward a mouse click or a key press?

Certain events, such as clicking or pressing a primal, can spawn pop-ups regardless of if the pop-up blocker is on. This is intentional, so that Firefox doesn't block pop-ups that websites need to work.

Is information technology a true pop-up window?

Sometimes ads are designed to look like windows, but actually aren't. Firefox's popular-up blocker can't finish these ads.

Mozilla surveys

When yous visit a Mozilla website, sometimes you lot'll come across a pop-upwards asking you to participate in a survey. The but third-party that Mozilla ever uses for surveys is SurveyGizmo, which has been vetted by our legal and privacy teams. The Firefox popular-up blocker doesn't block these popular-ups.

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