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Pop-up Blocker

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vtorney3
vtorney3

I keep turning off (disabling) pop-up blocker but it keeps coming back on. How do I permanently disable it?

I keep turning off (disabling) pop-up blocker but it keeps coming back on. How do I permanently disable it?

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Terry
Terry

Do you mean that you deselect the setting and it is re-selected? When does that happen?

vtorney3
vtorney3 Question owner

Yes, it has happened last 3 days. Work-around is to enter websites into "exceptions".

Liew Yu Chen
Liew Yu Chen

Hi, the steps to disable pop-up blocker permanently as follow:

1. Enter 'about:config' in the search bar. 2. Click on the 'Accept the Risk and Continue' button. 3. Search for 'access' and look for 'accessibility.blockautorefresh' 4. Click on the toggle icon of the search results. (from true to false)

Hope this helps. Best Regards!

Terry
Terry

That preference has nothing to do with pop-ups. I suggest trying a new profile. You can create one with Firefox open or closed.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_what-information-is-stored-in-my-profile