Firefox Tip: How To Stop Flash Popups

Firefox has a decent enough popup blocker built-in, but like most blockers it doesn’t stop Flash popups. To fix this do the following:

  • Type about:config into the Firefox address bar.
  • Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
  • Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
  • Set the value to 2

The possible values are:

  • 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
  • 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
  • 2: Block popups from plugins.
  • 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites