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How do I Stop hostile takeover of existing tabs?

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songdove
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Lately, one of the ad servers on a series of sites I regularly visit, has decided to start occasionally taking over those sites while I am using them. Sometimes this ad server will take over other sites that I didn't think had anything to do with that ad server. Typically my foxfilter will stop half the takeovers because it detects a porn term in the potential site being loaded. But other times I am left having to right-click the back button to return to an earlier version of the site I had originally loaded.

I installed a pop-up blocker to attempt cutting back on this behaviour because it also claimed to stop pop-unders, but I am also still getting pop-unders from this particular ad server. It actually jams up behaviour of any tab it decides to start trying to take over.

How do I stop this? I already have redirects turned off in Firefox, and the associated message often does come up before the hostile takeover takes place. Help?

Lately, one of the ad servers on a series of sites I regularly visit, has decided to start occasionally taking over those sites while I am using them. Sometimes this ad server will take over other sites that I didn't think had anything to do with that ad server. Typically my foxfilter will stop half the takeovers because it detects a porn term in the potential site being loaded. But other times I am left having to right-click the back button to return to an earlier version of the site I had originally loaded. I installed a pop-up blocker to attempt cutting back on this behaviour because it also claimed to stop pop-unders, but I am also still getting pop-unders from this particular ad server. It actually jams up behaviour of any tab it decides to start trying to take over. How do I stop this? I already have redirects turned off in Firefox, and the associated message often does come up before the hostile takeover takes place. Help?

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Happy112
Happy112
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Maybe you'd like to give this add-on a try :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-redirect/

'Hope that will work ....

FredMcD
FredMcD
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You may have ad/mal-ware. Further information can be found in this article; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware?cache=no

Run most or all of the listed malware scanners. Each works differently. If one program misses something, another may pick it up.