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How can I turn off adds and popups in Firefox?

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I get popup advertisements when Mozilla is on. Can I turn these off?

I also get popup messages tyring to sell various things. Can all of these types of popups be turned off?

I get popup advertisements when Mozilla is on. Can I turn these off? I also get popup messages tyring to sell various things. Can all of these types of popups be turned off?

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Downloading the Adblock Plus Firefox extension.

Please report back soon.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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