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- <title>Controlling Popups</title>
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- <h1>Controlling Popups</h1>
- <p>This document explains all of the &pref.plural; available in &brandFullName;
- for controlling popups.</p>
-
- <div class="contentsBox">
- In this section:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#what_are_popups">What are Popups?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#popup_blocker_preferences">Popup Blocker &pref.pluralCaps;</a></li>
- </ul>
- </div>
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- <h2 id="what_are_popups">What are Popups?</h2>
- <p>Popup windows, or popups, are windows that appear automatically without your
- permission. They vary in size but usually don't cover the whole screen. Some popups
- open on top of the current &brandShortName; window, while others appear
- underneath &brandShortName; (popunders).</p>
-
- <p>&brandShortName; allows you to control both popups and popunders through the
- <a href="prefs.xhtml#web_features_options">Web Features panel</a> in &pref.pluralCaps;.
- Popup blocking is turned on by default, so you don't have to worry about enabling it
- to prevent popups from appearing in &brandShortName;.</p>
-
- <p>When blocking a popup, &brandShortName; displays an information bar, as well
- as an icon <img src="chrome://browser/skin/Info.png" width="16" height="16"
- alt=""/> in the status bar. When you click either the information bar or the
- icon, a menu is displayed with the following choices:
- <ul>
- <li>Allow/Block popups for this site</li>
- <li>Edit <a href="#popup_blocker_preferences">Popup Blocker Options</a></li>
- <li>Don't show info message when blocking popups</li>
- <li>(show a blocked popup)</li>
- </ul>
- </p>
-
- <p><strong>Blocking popups may interfere with some web sites</strong>: Some web sites,
- including some banking sites, use popups for important features. Blocking all popups
- disables such features. To allow specific web sites to use popups, while blocking
- all others, you can add specific web sites to the list of allowed sites.</p>
-
- <p><strong>Blocking popups doesn't always work</strong>: Although &brandShortName; blocks most
- popups, some web sites may show popups using uncovered methods, even when blocked.</p>
-
- <h2 id="popup_blocker_preferences">Popup Blocker &pref.pluralCaps;</h2>
-
- <div>This section describes how to use the &brandShortName; Popup Blocker. If you're not
- already viewing it, open the Web Features panel by following these steps:
- <ol>
- <li>Select &pref.menuPath;.</li>
- <li>Click on the <em>Web Features</em> category.</li>
- </ol>
- From there, you can do the following things:
- <ul>
- <li><strong>Block Popup Windows</strong></li>
- <li><strong>Exceptions dialog</strong>: This is a list of sites that you want to allow
- to display popups. The dialog has the following choices:
- <ul>
- <li><strong>Allow</strong>: Click this to add a web site to the exceptions list.</li>
- <li><strong>Remove Site</strong>: Click this to remove a web site from the exceptions list.</li>
- <li><strong>Remove All Sites</strong>: Click this to remove all of the web sites in
- the exceptions list.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <p><strong>Note</strong>: Blocking popups may not always work and may interfere with
- some web sites. For more information about blocking popups, see
- <a href="#what_are_popups">What are Popups</a>.</p>
-
- <div class="contentsBox"><em>14 October 2004</em></div>
- <p>Copyright © 2003-2004 Contributors to the Mozilla Help Viewer Project.</p>
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