Re: Firefox suddenly blocking popups from allowed sites

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> My Firefox, as reported by "About: Firefox":
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1 <http://1.8.0.1>) 
> Gecko/20060313 Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Firefox/1.5.0.1
>
> I have some pages which popup information boxes when the mouse is over 
> certain words.  These have been working flawlessly, but suddenly 
> Firefox is blocking the popups.  The sites _are_ in my list of allowed 
> sites.  It is _not_ blocking onClick popups from the sites, only 
> onMouseOver popups.  Any ideas?
Start FF in "safe mode";
Try as a different user.

One or both of these techniques might provide a clue.

--
Kent