Anyone know any way to tweak FireFox settings or some method to stop random popups?

I'm getting annoyed of it.

not sure, some popups just seem to come even with popup blocking software. I'll look into it though.

I barely ever get popups, maybe you have a virus or something, those are known to cause popups

1st: Check for Spyware and Adwares.
Recommended: Ad-Aware, Spybot or/and, Windows Defender,

2nd: Pop-Up Blockers
Recommended: Windows Defender or any search bars (Google seems better).

3rd: Try to disable Java and Java Script in FireFox.
Tools > Options > Content > Uncheck "Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript".
Turn on Java and JavaScript when it is neccessary.

It seems no popup blockers do the job like they used to. When they first 'invented' popup blockers, they did the trick, but now the popups don't even get blocked, as they've figured out ways around it.

IMO you don't really have to go through the disable javascript/enable javascript when you have to procedure... that involves a lot of mousework.

What I would recommend for that is to download the NoScript extension for Firefox. What it does is it disables javascript by default, but when there's a website you visit that you want javascript to work on, you can have it enabled just by two clicks - clicking on the Noscript icon and then selecting to "allow javascript for website.com". Hope that helps because Noscript has helped me for the last year.

DouglasA Wrote:IMO you don't really have to go through the disable javascript/enable javascript when you have to procedure... that involves a lot of mousework.

What I would recommend for that is to download the NoScript extension for Firefox. What it does is it disables javascript by default, but when there's a website you visit that you want javascript to work on, you can have it enabled just by two clicks - clicking on the Noscript icon and then selecting to "allow javascript for website.com". Hope that helps because Noscript has helped me for the last year.

Thanks, I'll try it out right now.

It's not really the java flash pop-ups that annoy me, its those darn normal pop-ups that don't ever seem to get blocked.

I use to have a lot of spyware, after I cleared that up, all my popups were gone, try getting software to delete all of it, if any.

you should also try Zone Alarm..it'll warn you if u want somethin into ur system or not

make sure u get a good pop up blocker program. always helped me. also since i started using mozilla, ive been getting less pop ups. but popups do happen so dont sweat it too much