{"id":549,"date":"2005-04-05T22:13:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/05\/firefox-ups-the-war-on-pop-ups\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T03:13:52","slug":"firefox-ups-the-war-on-pop-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/05\/firefox-ups-the-war-on-pop-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Ups the War on Pop-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been using the increasingly popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=79076&amp;t=53\">Firefox<\/a> open-source web browser, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that ads are getting past the automated pop-up blocking that you can enable within the program.<\/p>\n<p>The problem comes from the increasing use of Macromedia Flash and Java to get around the usual pop-up window techniques that Firefox isn&#8217;t currently configured to block on command.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the developers seem to be working on new techniques to address these new issues, according to Mozilla employee Asa Dotzler, who has an entry on his <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/asa\/archives\/007860.html\">blog<\/a> regarding their latest experimental Firefox extension designed to test some of these new blocking techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been using the increasingly popular Firefox open-source web browser, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that ads are getting past the automated pop-up blocking that you can enable within the program. The problem comes from the increasing use of Macromedia Flash and Java to get around the usual pop-up window techniques that Firefox isn&#8217;t currently configured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/05\/firefox-ups-the-war-on-pop-ups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox Ups the War on Pop-Ups&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}