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I have accidently turned off the popup blocker status bar and don't know how to turn it back on?

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I accidentally turned off the popup blocker status bar and cannot find a way to turn it back on.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I turned it off

I accidentally turned off the popup blocker status bar and cannot find a way to turn it back on. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I turned it off

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You can look at these prefs on the about:config page and reset them via the right-click context menu: Status bar icon: browser.popups.showPopupBlocker Info bar at the top: privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config