lewisje wrote:if you took the sample setup that causes window.close() to be called whenever a document URL has "livejasmin" in it (intended to block LiveJasmin popups), then whenever you actually want to visit LiveJasmin, the tab would close on you.
Obviously one would try to use a less aggressive filter in such a situation, like
creatives.livejasmin.com or an even more specific filter.
Looking at the documentation of the ABP Pop-up Addon extension, it does appear to be more fully featured:
There are basically two ways of getting rid of an unwanted pop-up: blocking just the single pop-up or blocking all pop-ups from the site that was trying to open it.
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A quick example: there is a site called http://somesite.com which is trying to open a pop-up whose url is http://creatives.livejasmin.com. You have two options: adding http://creatives.livejasmin.com to Adblock Plus' "My Ad Blocking Rules" or adding somesite.com to Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon's site rules and selecting "Block all pop-ups" as an action. Former option will block this individual pop-up only, but the later one will block this pop-up and every other pop-up from somesite.com.
And I appreciate all these features, but haven't actually needed them yet. But it's good that they are there.
Allow me to quote a certain someone. "
Let me first say that I greatly appreciate the continued effort that goes into ABP Pop-up Addon extension. However, I currently have no less than 12 extensions that fix bugs, removed features and incomplete features in Firefox. I would really rather not have to also install an extension to fix a missing feature in another extension."
I feel the exact same way, and that's probably why I haven't installed the ABP Pop-up Addon extension. And for the same reason, Redirector extnsion is an acceptable solution to me.
