This certificate explains all of the settings bachelor in Mozilla Firefox for controlling popular-ups.

Tabular array of Contents

ane What are pop-ups?
ii Pop-up blocker settings
3 Popular-ups not being blocked
- iii.1 Is the popular-up coming from Firefox?
- 3.ii Is the pop-up blocker on and enabled for this site?
- iii.3 Is the popular-up shown later on a mouse click or a cardinal press?
- 3.4 Is it a true pop-upward window?
- 3.5 Mozilla surveys

What are pop-ups?

Popular-up windows, or pop-ups, are windows that appear automatically without your permission. They vary in size merely normally don't cover the whole screen. Some pop-ups open on top of the current Firefox window, while others announced underneath Firefox (pop-unders).

Firefox allows you to control both pop-ups and pop-unders in Firefox Options Preferences Settings . Pop-upwards blocking is turned on by default, so you don't have to worry about enabling it to prevent popular-ups from appearing in Firefox.

When blocking a popular-up, Firefox displays an data bar (if information technology hasn't been previously dismissed – see below), every bit well as an icon popup_icon_fx57 in the address bar.

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When you lot click either the Options Preferences button in the info bar or the icon in the address bar, a menu is displayed with the post-obit choices:

(show the blocked pop-up)

Blocking popular-ups may interfere with some websites: Some websites, including some cyberbanking sites, use popular-ups for important features. Blocking all pop-ups disables such features. To permit specific websites to utilise pop-ups, while still blocking all others, you can add those specific websites to the list of allowed sites.

Blocking popular-ups doesn't ever work: Although Firefox blocks most pop-ups, some websites may show pop-ups using uncovered methods, even when they are blocked.

Pop-up blocker settings

To access the popular-upwards blocker settings:

In the Carte du jour bar at the acme of the screen, click and select . Click the menu button and select . Click the menu button and select .
Select the panel.

Under the Permissions section, uncheck the box next to Block pop-up windows to disable the pop-up blocker altogether.
A click on Exceptions… opens a dialog box with a listing of sites that you desire to allow to display pop-ups.
The dialog box offers you the following choices:

Allow: Click this to add a website to the exceptions list.
Remove Website: Click this to remove a website from the exceptions list.
Remove All Websites: Click this to remove all of the websites in the exceptions listing.

Note: Blocking pop-ups may non e'er work and may interfere with some websites. For more data, see the What are Popular-ups? department above.

Popular-ups not being blocked

Is the pop-up coming from Firefox?

The popular-up may not really exist coming from Firefox. Y'all can make up one's mind where the pop-upwardly is coming from by the appearance of the window.

If you run across the address bar with the Tracking Protection push and the Site Identity push (a shield and a padlock) in the pop-up window, the pop-up is coming from Firefox.
If you don't see these buttons, yous may take malware on your computer that causes the popular-ups. For assistance, run into Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware.

Is the popular-up blocker on and enabled for this site?

In the Menu bar at the acme of the screen, click and select . Click the menu button and select . Click the menu button and select .
Select the panel and go to the Permissions section.
Brand sure the Cake pop-up windows checkbox is checked.
To the right of Block pop-upwards windows, click the Exceptions… button. A dialog box volition open with a list of sites that are immune to evidence pop-ups.
If the site that'southward opening pop-ups is listed here, select it and press Remove Website.
Click on Save Changes to update your changes.
Close the about:preferences folio. Whatever changes y'all've made will automatically exist saved.

Is the pop-up shown after a mouse click or a key printing?

Certain events, such equally clicking or pressing a fundamental, can spawn pop-ups regardless of if the popular-upward blocker is on. This is intentional, so that Firefox doesn't block pop-ups that websites need to piece of work.

Is information technology a true pop-up window?

Sometimes ads are designed to expect like windows, only really aren't. Firefox'south pop-up blocker can't stop these ads.

Mozilla surveys

When you visit a Mozilla website, sometimes y'all'll see a pop-up asking y'all to participate in a survey. The only third-party that Mozilla ever uses for surveys is SurveyGizmo, which has been vetted by our legal and privacy teams. The Firefox pop-upwardly blocker doesn't cake these pop-ups.