Firefox 3 Beta 4 'page redirecting' silliness

Since installing Firefox 3 Beta 4, I've seen the following IE-inspired pop-up far too often:

I see this when performing the following all-too-common actions:

  • Click a link from within Gmail
  • Open a new tab and manually enter a URL and then tap Enter

Enough already. This thing pops up too often and of course Firefox won't load the offending site until I've clicked Allow. There's no "Always Allow" or any obvious UI for turning this feature off.

Any ideas?

Update: A few people have already emailed me with the location in FF3 Options where this is turned off:

Thanks for that. But I'm still curious: Why was this never an issue in FF2 (or, I believe, previous FF3 betas)? I'm curious what's changed.

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lilserenity
on Mar 18, 2008
Maybe it's an accessibility aid for those who can't visually see the screen and use an assistive device such as a screen reader, sometimes page changes can be quite disorientating for some users in these scenarios if they weren't expecting them is my guess.

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