Open Bug 1134788 Opened 10 years ago Updated 3 years ago

UX: Confusing "Mozilla Firefox" on WinXP Ad Popup Windows

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Windows XP
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: sstangl, Unassigned)

Details

For a while now, my mother has been getting increasingly frustrated about some extremely irritating ads that Mozilla is showing her. I finally got an image of what she's talking about: http://i.imgur.com/mfyFZoA.jpg Apparently there is a DoubleClick popup window, and its titlebar text "Advertisement - Mozilla Firefox" is being misinterpreted as "An advertisement from Mozilla Firefox", resulting in negative feelings toward us. I'm not really sure what can be done on the UX side here -- maybe hiding "Mozilla Firefox" for popups -- but maybe other people are having the same issue. Obviously preventing the popups from occurring in the first place would be best (probably an antivirus addon).
For a non-foolproof idea: could we show the source of the popup, potentially blaming the addon in question?
Component: Theme → General
Severity: normal → S3
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