{"id":1515,"date":"2017-08-31T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:30","slug":"really-blocking-popups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/really-blocking-popups\/","title":{"rendered":"Really blocking popups."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely, despite what you would think, most browsers still allow popups\u2014even if you&#8217;ve disabled them in the normal UI. With Chrome, you can download one of several different popup blocker extensions. With Firefox-based browsers, you can go to about:config, search for <em>dom.popup_allowed_events<\/em>, and remove all of the entries there. (This does not prevent new windows or tabs from opening when you click on a legitimate link and, so far, I haven&#8217;t encountered a site where a desired popup is blocked; but, even if so, you can still allow popups from specific sites.) I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s available for IE as I never use it under normal circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely, despite what you would think, most browsers still allow popups\u2014even if you&#8217;ve disabled them in the normal UI. With Chrome, you can download one of several different popup blocker extensions. With Firefox-based browsers, you can go to about:config, search for dom.popup_allowed_events, and remove all of the entries there. (This does not prevent new windows &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/really-blocking-popups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Really blocking popups.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}