# So, I finally got Firefox

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 28, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048 "2004-11-28T23:10:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048/1 "2004-11-28T23:10:06Z")

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but I’m a bit perplexed over it’s pop-up blocker tabbed window thingy. If I’m at a website that wants to give me further information, I add it to my list of Allow Popups and click again, at which point Firefox opens the would-be pop-up on a tab (although all my other windows are tiled, go figure). Well, it \*seems \*like it’s trying to open the pop-up on a tab. What I actually get it a blank tab, blank window.

Can anyone help the newbie? I can’t find any info on Mozilla. I really, really don’t want to get back on Explorer. We got a browser-hijack so bad that one of the hijack help sites got very excited and asked us to email them a file, because they’ve never seen this before. Ugh. I’m happy to be a pioneer, but that just sucked!

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**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048/2 "2004-11-28T23:52:44Z")

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Not too sure about this as I don’t appear to have the problem, but try enabling Java/Java scripts and see if that helps.

Be aware though that Java has recently been foud to be compromised and may need to be updated on your machine.  
[The Register](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/24/java_browser_vuln/)

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**Author:** ![HappyHappy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@HappyHappy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HappyHappy)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048/3 "2004-11-29T00:27:20Z")

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Can’t help you myself but the main Mozilla site has a forum for these sort of questions. I’ve found it to be very helpful. Raise your problem there and you should get a pretty prompt reply.

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**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048/4 "2004-11-29T06:52:28Z")

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Try going to tools and then options. Click on advanced. Under the Tabbed Browsing catagory, it says “Open links from other applications in:” click where it says “another window.”  
Report back if this does, or doesn’t solve your problem.  
Oh, and do you have a software firewall running? I know that Zone Alarm, and the new Windows Firewall with SP2 have their own pop-up blockers as well, so you may need to allow exceptions there.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-got-firefox/277048/5 "2004-11-29T14:46:37Z")

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We turned off our pop-up blocker software completely (sort of redundant with Firefox) and now it’s working. Thanks for the advice!