247782 - Sticky popup and drop-down popup not blocked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246453

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Astle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Two of the popup tests on a site called popuptest.com are not blocked. One is 

http://www.popuptest.com/popuptest8.html

and the other is this sticky popup:

http://www.popuptest.com/popuptest6.html

The sticky popup they are displaying is also not properly displayed. Only a
small part of it is visible.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the listed sites
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Actual Results:  
I got un-blocked popups

Expected Results:  
Blocked the popups

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

well... this isn't truly a "popup" as both are basically floating divs within
the content of the page.  I don't know if there's any viable way to
differentiate "valid" uses of this with "bogus" versions of this.

ccing danm, is this something we can do anything about?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246453 ***