Blocking pop ups during the propogation of the click event

Solution 1:

It seems that this should be configurable and there is a list of events such as mouse clicks, doubleclicks and form submission that can be used to trigger pop ups.

For more information Mozilla: dom.popup_allowed_events

1. Browse to about:config
2. Click through the security warning
3. Enter dom.popup_allowed_events in the search bar. The item that appears is a space separated list of events that can trigger popups
4. Remove the events you don't want. The event names should be obvious as to what they allow.

Another question on Superuser: Change some default settings for Firefox globally provides information on how to apply that setting to multiple profiles. It should be as simple as appending the config line you want to the current user config file.

Alternatively there is an add-on that I suspect will change this setting for you, but I do not know how to insert an add-on and configure it without user intervention.

Popup Blocker Ultimate