Mozilla has a feature that allows one to block pop-ups, those annoying little windows that appear when you’re surfing around. To enable this feature in a 1.0 or 1.1 build (and also in Netscape 7, I think…), you should go to the preferences area. On Linux and Windows, it’s under the “Edit” menu, as “Preferences”. On Mac OS X, it is located under the menu called “Mozilla”, and then — you guessed it — “Preferences”.

Wow. Lots of preferences, right? To find the ones you want to toggle, click on the expander in front of “Advanced” on the left area of the window (it’s near the bottom of that list on the left). See where it says “Scripts and Plugins”? Click on it.

Now the right area changes. You will see a ton of checkboxes. Inside the box that is labeled “Allow scripts to:”, uncheck all of those options, except for the bottom three. The first one in that list is actually the one you want to turn off, but the rest don’t hurt at all (as those are also responsible for very annoying Javascript when you’re surfing around. The bottom three are actually useful, as it enables image rollovers and cookies (which are required for many sites to function).

Enjoy a pop-up free browsing experience!