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Most of the time, when I hit a link, it opens but tabs with ads or pages that I didn't ask for are opening also and they come up on top. I have to dump them t
Most of the time, when I hit a link, it opens but tabs with ads or pages that I didn't ask for are opening also and they come up on top. I have to dump them to get to the link I originally hit. How can I stop this from happening? It's so irritating and they take a while to come up before I can close them. Note: I use Firefox for Mac OS
Most of the time, when I hit a link, it opens but tabs with ads or pages that I didn't ask for are opening also and they come up on top. I have to dump them to get to the link I originally hit. How can I stop this from happening? It's so irritating and they take a while to come up before I can close them. Note: I use Firefox for Mac OS
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Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 12.0 r0
- Displays Java applet content, or a placeholder if Java is not installed.
- The Google Earth Plugin allows you to view 3D imagery and terrain in your web browser.
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Octoshape Streaming Services web integration browser plug-in
- Coupons Inc., Coupon Printing FireFox Plugin
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- RealPlayer Plugin
- Musicnotes Viewer plugin 1.18.6 http://www.musicnotes.com
- iPhoto6
Application
- Firefox 27.0.1
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0
- Support URL: https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/27.0.1/Darwin/en-US/
Extensions
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- DoNotTrackMe: Online Privacy Protection 3.1.1038 (donottrackplus@abine.com)
- Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus 1.2.3 (elemhidehelper@adblockplus.org)
- JavaScript Debugger 0.9.89 ({f13b157f-b174-47e7-a34d-4815ddfdfeb8})
- PDF Viewer 0.8.649 (uriloader@pdf.js)
- QuickJava 2.0.4 ({E6C1199F-E687-42da-8C24-E7770CC3AE66})
- StartPage Site Search v1.0.0.0 (jid0-Ah0CrdmFQuvYtoNKD1ABdh39ysI@jetpack)
- Torrent Handler 1.1 (TorrentHandler@TorrentHandler.com)
- Troubleshooter 1.1a (troubleshooter@mozilla.org)
- Yontoo 1.20.02 (plugin@yontoo.com)
- YouTube High Definition 7.5 ({7b1bf0b6-a1b9-42b0-b75d-252036438bdc})
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription:
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- adapterDrivers:
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- driverDate:
- driverVersion:
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'quartz', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'quartz', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'none', u'AzureSkiaAccelerated': 0}
- numAcceleratedWindows: 1
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M OpenGL Engine
- windowLayerManagerRemote: True
- windowLayerManagerType: OpenGL
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive: 1
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.search.suggest.enabled: False
- browser.search.useDBForOrder: True
- browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20140212131424
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20140212131424
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 27.0.1
- browser.tabs.loadInBackground: False
- dom.max_script_run_time: 0
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- dom.w3c_touch_events.expose: False
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 27.0.1
- font.internaluseonly.changed: True
- gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa: 4
- network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 1
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1392424078
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 100664
- plugin.importedState: True
- plugin.state.adobepdfviewernpapi: 0
- plugin.state.scorch: 0
- plugin.state.silverlight: 0
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- security.csp.enable: False
- security.OCSP.enabled: 0
- security.warn_viewing_mixed: False
- storage.vacuum.last.index: 1
- storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1391523535
Misc
- User JS: Yes
- Accessibility: No
Question owner
PS... please note that I am in Firefox for Mac OS
PS... please note that I am in Firefox for Mac OS
You can stop that behavior by changing two settings within the browser. Go to Tools -> Options and click on the CONTENT button. Make sure that "Block pop-up windows" is checked. Then click on the ADVANCED button on the far right and add a check to "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload".
That should stop most of them. If not all, then you could install AdBlock Plus add-on, since most of the redirects are ad generated. (Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons)
You can stop that behavior by changing two settings within the browser. Go to Tools -> Options and click on the CONTENT button. Make sure that "Block pop-up windows" is checked. Then click on the ADVANCED button on the far right and add a check to "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload".
That should stop most of them. If not all, then you could install AdBlock Plus add-on, since most of the redirects are ad generated. (Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons)
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