Blocking a URL

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 03/27/2010 09:22 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Every once in a while I get a new Firefox window...
>> I have tried to use adblock to block this URL explicitly...
>
> I've noticed in the past few months that I'm seeing pop-up ads in
> Firefox 3.0.x. My understanding - and my past experience - has been that
> Firefox's built-in pop-up blocking has been adequate to stop these and
> the adblock extension is only needed if you want to eliminate on-page ads.
>
> Apparently ad produces have found a way to thwart Firefox's pop-up
> blocker. What's worse is that on Ubuntu 9.04, if you manually close the
> pop-up windows, it pretty much always crashes Firefox. (If you close the
> window responsible for generating the pop-ups, then the pop-ups seem to
> go away without incident.)
>
> I'm seeing these pop-ups most frequently on LinkedIn, and at least one
> other place that I don't recall. Anyone else seeing them and have you
> found a remedy?
>
>    -Tom
>

Yes, I've been noticing them as well (often containing ads for Netflix), 
and no I don't know what's causing them or how to work around.

DR