As convenient and necessary as the Internet is for any business, sometimes it brings along some inconvenient and even frustrating baggage, like intrusive pop-up windows. One feature to combat this in ...

The Mozilla Foundation has developed a beta patch for the Firefox browser that it claims improves the blocking of pop-up ads. The popular open source browser already contains a pop-up blocker by ...

Pop-ups and ads are a fact of life, especially if you spend a significant amount of time on the Internet. However, there are good ads (banners on the sides of web pages that don’t play audio or get in ...

For a period of three days last week I received a push notification every time Space.com posted a story. While I definitely like my share of space stories, I’m not a huge enthusiast. The notifications ...

Virtually every random site you go to these days wants you to subscribe to its push notifications. It’s one of the many small annoyances on the open web, but thankfully, those pop ups may not be for ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mozilla’s open-source web browser is taking a bold stance against the ad industry Mozilla’s open-source web ...

Mozilla said that its popular Firefox browser will eventually block ad-based tracking by default. To get there, the company plans to roll out new features over the next several months, such as a new ...

Mozilla today announced that its Firefox browser will soon by default automatically block all attempts at cross-site tracking. There are three parts to this strategy. Starting with version 63, which ...

A flaw in the pop-up blocker of the open-source browser Firefox could allow an attacker to access local files, according to security analysts. The flaw, however, does not affect Firefox 2.0, the ...

One thing that gives Firefox its mass appeal is it’s solid pop-up blocker. Now Mozilla’s pop-up blocker is being challenged. There are some websites that have found a way around the blocker after its ...