How to Get Firefox to Ask About Popups?

[TheBizarreChar]

At one point when I was browsing, I accidentally clicked the option to not show me this notification about if I wanted a pop-up to open when I was trying to open a pop-up. Now, I can't find any way to turn the thing back on, and I'm having to manually add websites to pop-up exceptions in the settings, which is super annoying, because I don't even get a notification that a pop-up was blocked if a website was supposed to serve me one that I needed.

I tried Googling, but the only answers are super old and mention some sort of status bar that Firefox no longer even has. So, I don't know what to do to turn this pop-up notification back on!

[soybean]

Try this.  On the menu bar (upper left corner of the Firefox window), click Tools, then Options.  On the Options page, select Privacy & Security, from the menu on the left column menu on the page.  Scroll down to the section titled Permissions, then put a check mark in the box for "Block pop-up windows". 

[TheBizarreChar]

That check is already there, and if I uncheck it, then no pop-ups are blocked at all.

[patio]

Run FFox with no addons...probably 1 of those actin up.

[BC_Programmer]

There is an "Exceptions" button to the right of the checkbox itself. Allowing pop-ups via the prompt/notification adds an exception there.

[TheBizarreChar]

Run FFox with no addons...probably 1 of those actin up.

This is some Firefox config that had the value changed. I don't have any add-ons that do anything to the UI or pop-ups.

There is an "Exceptions" button to the right of the checkbox itself. Allowing pop-ups via the prompt/notification adds an exception there.

I mentioned adding exceptions already, and there's nothing about restoring the notification there. The only thing I can see in the exceptions is the websites I now have to go all the way in there to add every time.

Edit: Well I ended up finding it myself after getting an idea while thinking about it again. For anyone in the future who comes looking, if you go to about:config using the URL bar and then search for privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage, it will show up as false. Right-click that line and toggle it to true to restore the pop-up notifications.

[patio]

Well someone screwed around because the default is true...

[TheBizarreChar]

Well someone screwed around because the default is true...

If you had read the original post, you'd know how it got set to false...