[How-To] Stop Automatic Redirects To Other Websites with Firefox 3
At times some websites redirect users to other websites for various purposes. However, the important thing is that many scam websites often use this practise to plant spywares and malwares on user’s computers. With Firefox 3 you can prevent such behaviour by following the steps mentioned below.
1.) Open your Firefox 3 instance.
2.) Click on Tools. Next Click on Options.
3.) Click on Advanced tab. Click on sub tab called General.
Image: Stop Automatic redirects with Firefox 3.
4.) Select the checkbox which says ” Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page”.
5.) Click on Ok.
Once you have setup the feature after following the steps as mentioned above, Firefox will report redirects to other websites with an information bar, the bar will have an option for you to either approve or disapprove the behaviour.
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Thanks for the tip. I learned about this feature when I found this site while Googling for Firefox redirects a few weeks ago. But I didn’t like how this blocked all redirects with no way to whitelist, and it didn’t stop server-based redirects, which are even more annoying. I kept searching, and it looks like there is a new Firefox extension, NoRedirect, that stops redirects selectively, both server-based and META tag: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/11787
What a useless tip. It is already enabled by default and it does nothing.
Good day sir,
i have been using ultrasurf to visit numerous website but to my gratest supprise i could not visit tchating pages like http://www.msnmobile.airg.ca , http://www.123love.com , http://www.tagged.com , http://www.badoo.com and many other website to dialog and share ideas with other friend around the world
I was wondering if it is a security set by ULTRASURF.
thanks in advance
Thanks for this article. Seems that more and more webpages are using automatic redirects. This will save a lot of wasted time going back to a page I was on just because some crappy ad they had forced my page to redirect elsewhere.
Useless. Doesn’t stop redirects at all. How can you call this helpful?
Didn’t help. I think I have a virus. I get redirected when I go to the subscription site Traffic Geyser. There is no reason they would want to redirect me to another site that has nothing to do with them.
is anyone really listening to this problem .. H E Y … mozilla we need help with these page hijacks … come on help already ..
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This is working for me so far. I’m not sure why it isn’t working for anyone else.