Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

Get rid of annoying pop up

  • 2 antwoorde
  • 1 het hierdie probleem
  • 470 views
  • Laaste antwoord deur hellokimmiee

more options

Every time I search something on a certain website I get a pop up that says: "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave — information you’ve entered may not be saved." This has only started happening since Firefox updated and it's very annoying. I use the website for work so I don't want to stop every ten minutes to click leave page.

Every time I search something on a certain website I get a pop up that says: "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave — information you’ve entered may not be saved." This has only started happening since Firefox updated and it's very annoying. I use the website for work so I don't want to stop every ten minutes to click leave page.

Gekose oplossing

This isn't new, but maybe you had customized a preference before and it reverted to default.

That message is generated when sites have hooked into the "beforeunload" event triggered by leaving the page. (Or perhaps if an add-on injected code into the page to do that.) If you do not want ANY site to ever be able to hook into that event, there is a preference for that. But unfortunately there's no way to block it just for one site.

Global preference:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste dom.disable_beforeunload and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the preference to switch the value from false to true

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox.

Lees dié antwoord in konteks 👍 1

All Replies (2)

more options

Gekose oplossing

This isn't new, but maybe you had customized a preference before and it reverted to default.

That message is generated when sites have hooked into the "beforeunload" event triggered by leaving the page. (Or perhaps if an add-on injected code into the page to do that.) If you do not want ANY site to ever be able to hook into that event, there is a preference for that. But unfortunately there's no way to block it just for one site.

Global preference:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste dom.disable_beforeunload and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the preference to switch the value from false to true

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox.

more options

jscher2000 said

This isn't new, but maybe you had customized a preference before and it reverted to default.

That worked! Thanks a million.