Question about alert boxes

[ohheckyeah]

Does anyone know how to disable an alert box in Firefox? I'm using a website that gives a notification for a new question to answer and once you click OK it takes you to the question page. Evidently, from what someone has said on a forum concerning the website, there is a way to disable that alert box and have Firefox default to the question page, bypassing the step of clicking ok.


Does anyone have any idea how that is done?

[canetoad]

1. Could be Block Popup Windows

Look in Tools menu/Options....Content tab.

[ohheckyeah]

4. Thanks.

I think this is a javascript alert or announcement box that you have to click okay to go to another page. I just can't figure out how someone bypassed that and got the page to automatically load without having to click on the acceptance button (or okay button).

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. In FF 3.6.3: Tools-> Options-> Advanced-> General Tab

untick "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page"

Is that the "alert box" of which you speak?

[ohheckyeah]

3. No.

This is a built in alert box on a website. When you click the OK it sends you to a page with a question to answer. I was told there was a way to disable that function and it would automatically go to the question page without having to get the alert (or announcement box if you will) and click on okay.

Does that make any sense?

[canetoad]

5. I wonder if it's the NoScript add-on

That can disable java scripts from running on your page.

[ohheckyeah]

8. I think I tired the NoScript addon and it didn't

work.

[charlie]

6. Try editing your 'user.js' file

It's in your Firefox profile folder:

SYSTEM_ROOT\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\GIBBERISH.PROFILE_NAME

If it doesn't exist, you'll have to create it. Just open a text file in a text editor and save it using the name 'user.js'.

Insert these lines:

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "noalert");
user_pref("capability.policy.noalert.sites", "http://www.annoyingalert.com");
user_pref("capability.policy.noalert.Window.alert", "noAccess");

Replace the annoyalert.com site with the name of your site. Save the file.

Close and restart Firefox.

More info:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/ConfigPolicy.html
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

This should work IF... it's a Javascript ALERT prompt you're talking about. The prefs script above will disable it. In Javascript, an ALERT merely pauses script execution until you click OK, then it'll fall through to the next line, which should be the redirect to the question page.

If it's a CONFIRM prompt (a 2-button OK and CANCEL dialog) however, this method won't work. The action following a CONFIRM is conditional, depending on which button you click. Making the CONFIRM go away will stop the script and the redirect will never happen. To fix that, you'll probably need to write a GreaseMonkey script, which is way more trouble than this is worth.

[ohheckyeah]

7. Thank you very much.

I'll try this out tomorrow and let you know.

It's definitely a javascript alert.

[ohheckyeah]

9. I tried it out and it didn't work.

Thanks for your help, though!