Firefox + Google Reader = Annoying
Just like many others I am a heavy RSS user and my preferred way of reading RSS is Google Reader, since I can use it almost anywhere don’t have to worry about missing something. However, there is one thing that bugged me for a long time, which I’ve actually fixed a minute ago and I just want to save it here for future reference.
The problem is that Firefox has a limitation on the number of pop-up windows/tabs produced by a single webpage. Apparently the extreme convienient “v” shortcut in Google Reader is considered a potentially unwished pop-up and so the counter gets incremented. Since I’m reading a lot of Reddit lately, I tend to scroll through the list of new articles opening the ones I’m interested in to a background tab with “v”. After some time, I suddenly get a message from Google Reader about my browser having prevented pop-ups from appearing. A simple search for “pop” in about:config revealed a limitation named dom.popup_maximum, which is by default set to 20. Setting it to -1 solved my problems and let me read a lot more stuff I shouldn’t really be interested in on a Saturday night…