Bub-bye Pop Unders!

Category: Firefox

We know the annoying pop-ups advertisements are all over the World Wide Web when we are surfing websites.  Most pop-ups are generated by Javascript and most browsers including Internet Explorer 7 and above has “pop-up blocker”. Since pop-ups are easy to “kill”, pop-unders are then being introduced. Normal pop-up blocker embeded in the browser is not able to “kill” pop-unders. This is because, pop-unders are made available by Abode Flash Plugin!!

What is pop-under anywhere? It’s the annoying online advertisement which appears “beneath” / behind your current active browser. Once the advertisement is launched, it will automatically open up a new window, showing ads without really disturbing you for the time being, until you close your current browser. (then you will have to close those extra meaningless windows)

If you are using Firefox, you can disable pop-unders in just few steps!

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In your browser URL, type about:config and press enter. Read more…