michael lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in a6o2p4$fs0k0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:a6o2p4$fs0k0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In article <6xLj8.35076$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > TazMainiac wrote: >> I have a HOSTS file that maps many ad servers to 0.0.0.0 >> (see http://www.smartin-designs.com). >> >> In versions of Mozilla prior to 0.9.9, this worked wonderfully. > > it did? i had dialogs popping up all over the place in 0.9.7 and > .9.8 just the same...
Odd - I put the hosts file (the 0.0.0.0 one) in place *months* ago, and everything was fine - no pop-ups. Then with 0.9.9 I get the pop-ups. > you can't stop those pop-ups. there is a RFE filed to change the > pop-ups into placeholder pages, which should sort things out if > and when it gets implemented - > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28586 Well that'd be half the battle I think - see below. > as a workaround, what you can do is point the hosts entries at > the IP of a webserver that exists (maybe you have one running on > your local network, or run one yourself?) - then mozilla will get > 404s back from that server, instead of connection refused > messages, and you won't get the annoying dialogs. What I really want is for Mozilla to support regular expression ad-banner blocking: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78104 Then I can just use something like JunkBuster's ad blocker file, and be done with it. Of course, the nice thing about the HOSTS file is that it blocks everything, cookies, web bugs (invisible gif's), etc. Thanks, Taz
