Popular-upward blocker settings, exceptions and troubleshooting

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

Table of Contents

  • 1 What are pop-ups?
  • two Pop-up blocker settings
  • three Pop-ups not beingness blocked
    • 3.one Is the popular-upward coming from Firefox?
    • 3.2 Is the popular-up blocker on and enabled for this site?
    • 3.3 Is the popular-up shown after a mouse click or a key press?
    • iii.4 Is it a truthful pop-up window?
    • three.5 Mozilla surveys

What are pop-ups?

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

Firefox allows yous to control both pop-ups and popular-unders in Firefox Options Preferences Settings . Pop-up blocking is turned on by default, and then you lot don't have to worry about enabling it to prevent popular-ups from appearing in Firefox.

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

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When yous click either the Options Preferences  button in the info bar or the icon in the address bar, a carte is displayed with the following choices:

  • (bear witness the blocked popular-up)

Blocking pop-ups may interfere with some websites: Some websites, including some banking sites, employ popular-ups for of import features. Blocking all pop-ups disables such features. To allow specific websites to utilize pop-ups, while however blocking all others, you can add those specific websites to the list of allowed sites.

Blocking pop-ups doesn't ever work: Although Firefox blocks most popular-ups, some websites may bear witness pop-ups using uncovered methods, fifty-fifty when they are blocked.

Pop-up blocker settings

To access the pop-upwards blocker settings:

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

  2. Select the console.
  • Under the Permissions department, uncheck the box side by side to Cake pop-upwards windows to disable the pop-upwardly blocker altogether.
  • A click on Exceptions… opens a dialog box with a list of sites that you want to permit to display pop-ups.
  • The dialog box offers you the post-obit 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 listing.

Annotation: Blocking pop-ups may not ever work and may interfere with some websites. For more than data, run across the What are Pop-ups? department above.

Pop-ups not being blocked

Is the pop-upwards coming from Firefox?

The pop-up may not actually exist coming from Firefox. You can make up one's mind where the pop-up is coming from by the appearance of the window.

  • If you see the address bar with the Tracking Protection push button and the Site Identity button (a shield and a padlock) in the pop-up window, the pop-upwardly is coming from Firefox.
  • If y'all don't see these buttons, y'all may have malware on your estimator that causes the popular-ups. For help, come across Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused past malware.

Is the pop-upwardly blocker on and enabled for this site?

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

  2. Select the panel and go to the Permissions section.
  3. Brand sure the Block pop-up windows checkbox is checked.
  4. To the correct of Block popular-up windows, click the Exceptions… push. A dialog box will open up with a list of sites that are allowed to bear witness popular-ups.
  5. If the site that's opening popular-ups is listed here, select it and press Remove Website.
  6. Click on Save Changes to update your changes.
  7. Close the well-nigh:preferences folio. Any changes yous've fabricated will automatically be saved.

Is the pop-upwardly shown later on a mouse click or a key press?

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

Is it a true popular-up window?

Sometimes ads are designed to look like windows, simply actually aren't. Firefox's pop-upward blocker can't stop these ads.

Mozilla surveys

When you visit a Mozilla website, sometimes y'all'll see a popular-up asking you to participate in a survey. The only third-party that Mozilla always uses for surveys is SurveyGizmo, which has been vetted by our legal and privacy teams. The Firefox pop-up blocker doesn't block these pop-ups.

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