Help woth firefox/explorer please

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    #1 bfchris, Oct 31, 2008
    I am using firefox and am pleased with it but it is being slowed down by 3 or 4 explorer pages being opened up by stupid stuff like UPS tracker or filmon - blatantly advertising and avoiding the pop up blocker somehow. Anyone any ideas on how to stop these lease? tHanks Chris
     
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    #2 uncle mort, Oct 31, 2008
    been with f/fox 3yrs now never had a pop up

    sorry sant help
     
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    #3 bfchris, Oct 31, 2008
    the pop ups are coming from explorer bu can't seem to see why they're opening independently of ff
     
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    #4 Brush, Oct 31, 2008
    Only get the pop-ups where I've enabled them

    Been using firefox for years.
     
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    #5 Brush, Oct 31, 2008
    You say the pop-ups are IE?

    That suggests that you may wave some spyware or something.
     
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    #7 tyke69, Oct 31, 2008
    I got the same with firefox and found a solution to go into add/remove programmes and look for anything that seems dodgy - ince doing this got no more!
     
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    #8 bfchris, Oct 31, 2008
    That's exactly it - 3or 4 IE windows open up when I am in Firefox. I downloaded windows defender but it doesn't seem to have done owt - do I have to put it somewhere or activate it? Thanks agian</p>

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