Firefox what happened - you used to be cool

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Recently i've been noticing that after I close or minimise firefox there are to be shock and horror pop up windows awaiting my attention
now much as i am tempted to download crazy frog or increase the ahem volume of my appendage, I 'm seeing a failing in firefox which I initially chose firefox to prevent
Am I going to have to change to opera :( or am I missing something here?
 
What pages do you get the popups on?

It could just be spyware on your machine :/
 
i get the odd pop up on firefox, but thats like once or twice a week
 
"Hey! China is still cool!"

Every now and then I get one, usually at some bs site that I would expect it. Or just like Septih said, could be your machine.
 
true it could be - big bertha is givin me alot less lovin these days
i have spybot running and it seems to pick up swathes of spyware yet i have my cookies filter set quite high
its annoying and yes it usually only happens when i visit crap sites - mainly time killing ones that link elsewhere :(
damn their souls to the hellfires :flame:
 
lol, terrible anecdote...

I havent got a popup/spyware/adware in like a year since I got FF
 
I use firefox and I have no popup problems or spyware problems in general. Iff your getting spyware or popups its coming from programs your downloading (limewire etc.)
 
limewire doesn't install any spyware and firefox isn't perfect, spyware can still get through it. =/

ff will be cool again, when it fixes 3 main things, the ugly gui, load time & memory leaks.
 
Heres the thing:
People make money off of Ad's.
They don't make money when the Ad's are blocked.
They developed better anti-anti-Ad techniques.
Firefox has yet to be updated to work against these new techniques.
 
I really dont know of a blocker that stops the pop-behinds. It's the ad companies way of getting around blockers.

When store managers talk numbers and they are negative (in the red) but better than the rest of the stores they say they are the tall midget. Maybe Firefox is the tall midget here. =p
 
Asus said:
I really dont know of a blocker that stops the pop-behinds. It's the ad companies way of getting around blockers.

When store managers talk numbers and they are negative (in the red) but better than the rest of the stores they say they are the tall midget. Maybe Firefox is the tall midget here. =p
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I haven't had an ad for years on IE6. 'nuff said. Get it.
 
I haven't had an ad for years on IE6. 'nuff said. Get it.
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Yes cuz the Ad-Blocker on IE6 has been out for sooo many years...
 
If you are using spybot, you got to make sure to immunize that way you don't keep getting the same old spyware junk. That should help some if you havn't already done it.
 
Fliko said:
I haven't had an ad for years on IE6. 'nuff said. Get it.
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Everytime i use IE I get pop ups as well. Just depends where you go I guess.
 
destrukt said:
limewire doesn't install any spyware and firefox isn't perfect, spyware can still get through it. =/

ff will be cool again, when it fixes 3 main things, the ugly gui, load time & memory leaks.
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You can skin the GUI
It loads in 5 seconds for me
Show me a memory leak?
 
show you a memory leak ? go look on bugzilla or go to any large forum and say 'ff has a memory leak ?' and see the replies or go search digg for firefox posts and see the massive amount complaints.

sure, you can skin it but as of now, there aren't really any decent skins and the few which do a 'full' replacement are horrible safari copies. also, this doesn't give them an excuse for making ff so ugly but hopefully v2 will fix that.

ie7 loads instantly for me, ff takes a few seconds and then there are those tests seeing which is faster from a cold start, where ie6 was better then ff (other browsers where in the test too).
 
destrukt said:
show you a memory leak ? go look on bugzilla or go to any large forum and say 'ff has a memory leak ?' and see the replies or go search digg for firefox posts and see the massive amount complaints.
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Alot of those bug reports of memory leaks are for the newer beta versions (Trunk- 1.6).
:P
I've had maybe 1 memory leak incident with 1.5 so far.
ie7 loads instantly for me, ff takes a few seconds and then there are those tests seeing which is faster from a cold start
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Welcome to prefetch.
 
john3571000 said:
Recently i've been noticing that after I close or minimise firefox there are to be shock and horror pop up windows awaiting my attention
now much as i am tempted to download crazy frog or increase the ahem volume of my appendage, I 'm seeing a failing in firefox which I initially chose firefox to prevent
Am I going to have to change to opera :( or am I missing something here?
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I used to have Crazy Frog addware, I used everysingle anti-addware program. It was annoying it would start when you join a game server aswell thus minimising the game and causeing the game to be so laggy that you have to reboot the game.

Unfortunatly I forgot what I did to deleate it.
 
WhiteZero said:
Alot of those bug reports of memory leaks are for the newer beta versions (Trunk- 1.6).
:P
I've had maybe 1 memory leak incident with 1.5 so far.

Welcome to prefetch.
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no, the memory leaks have been around for 'years.'

excuses are cool, kekekeek.
 
the memory leak i can live with although i do get a fright from time to time when i look at the task manager and see ff using 150Mb+ of memory :O
is there/shouldn't there be a download that allows you when you have a popup to select it by source/properties/content and block it forever more
 
john3571000 said:
the memory leak i can live with although i do get a fright from time to time when i look at the task manager and see ff using 150Mb+ of memory :O
is there/shouldn't there be a download that allows you when you have a popup to select it by source/properties/content and block it forever more
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There is. Tools > Options. Set stuff up however you like. Disallow cookies from popupsites. Seems to help stop any that are sneaking through the blocker.
 
john3571000 said:
good man - i'll try that asap
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One way is to reset / clear all cookies, then set cookies to "ask every time", then go to some sites you go to often and click "deny" to any cookies except ones specifically from the site you are visiting. Then change the cookie setting back to "untill they expire". Or just tick the "from originating site only" box.
 
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