147203 - Irritating "connection refused" dialog; ad-blocking software.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Nick Richards]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

I run some advertizement blocking software that kills HTTP transactions to/from
known ad-sites.  In Mozilla this otherwise cool technology gets irritating when
you go to a site with some "doubleclick.net" images, and Mozilla pops up a
series of dialogs for each blocked image!  

Alert
The connection was refused when trying to connect to ad.uk.doubleclick.net

Sorta defeats the ad-blocking software's intent.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Sorry, I do not know the name of the ad-blocking software.  (I've tried
uninstalling it because of the Mozilla conflict and now the uninstaller is gone
but the software is still functioning, sucky but what the hey)
1. Surf to http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25433.html
2. See the Doubleclick advertisement?  That results in a broken image on my box

Actual Results:  When the page loads the Dialog pops up, for each Doubleclick image

Expected Results:  I would like a broken image to be displayed if a connection
is refused for just an image within a page.  A broken-image link is sufficient,
a dialog for each page's broken image seems like overkill.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  We should not be using a dialog for this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***