Blocking a URL

[Tom Metro]

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

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