12th Dec 2004
Firefox Not Invincible to Pop-ups
I just saw my second pop-up while using the Firefox browser, which is supposed to be impervious to pop-ups:
I see that I’m not the first to observe this. Please, you smart people out there in open-source land, fix this!
It’s possible that the ones I’ve seen might have been served by SiteMeter, the free web traffic analysis tool. That seems a bit strange, in that SiteMeter is quite popular with bloggers, as is Firefox, so I would think if that’s the case, SiteMeter is pissing a bit in their own pool, and also I would have seen more bloggers complaining about it. But as best I can recall, the other time I saw a pop-up while using Firefox a few days ago, I was also checking out my traffic stats on SiteMeter. Of course, the other possibility is that it was one of the sites that I found via SiteMeter that was linking to my blog that served the pop-up. I’ll keep an eye on the sitation and update if I figure anything else out.
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