# Mozilla gods, attend me!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-gods-attend-me/242788>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-gods-attend-me/242788 "2004-04-30T03:17:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-gods-attend-me/242788/1 "2004-04-30T03:17:37Z")

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I love Mozilla. Since I started using it, I have had almost no annoying pop-up windows to distract me from the joy of webbing (Hey, I’m not a surfer, k?)

I say _almost_ because occasionally I click on the little icon down in the corner to turn them on. The way some websites work, you need to. Infrequently, that is a mistake. Usually it isn’t a problem, but my question is this: when I discover I am at a website where I have enabled pop-up windows and decide I want to turn them off, how do I get that little window back to rescind permission?

Yeah, I know there’s a help file, but it was compiled by someone who knows what they’re talking about, in technical terms I may not recognize. When I search the help files for “pop-up windows”, the response is: “No matching items found”. Thanks, guys, that was \*really \*helpful. :wally

Thanks in advance.

–SSgtBaloo

I really ought to invest in a Geek-English, English-Geek dictionary. 😉

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-gods-attend-me/242788/2 "2004-04-30T03:22:12Z")

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Tools - Popup manager - Manage popups. Remove the offending website from the ‘allowed’ list. 🙂

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**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-gods-attend-me/242788/3 "2004-04-30T03:34:38Z")

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> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> Tools - Popup manager - Manage popups. Remove the offending website from the ‘allowed’ list. 🙂

Two responses:

[ol]  
[li]Thank you, GorillaMan.[/li][li] **Doh!** :smack: [/li][/ol]

–SSgtBaloo

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-gods-attend-me/242788/4 "2004-04-30T03:40:50Z")

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No problem - as wonderful as Mozilla is, there’s still a fair few examples like this where the interface is thoroughly unintuitive.