152007 - Pop-up blocking doesn't work on this page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144726

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Steffen Motzer]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614
BuildID:    2002061404

Even though Mozilla is configured not to open unrequested windows, the page
manages to open a new window (http://www.popupad.net/ats/switch.php).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure Mozilla not to open unrequested windows.
2. Got to http://www.yourmp3.net/search.php

Comment 1

[Steffen Motzer]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

Confirming using build 2002061406 - WinXP

Here is the script called for pop-up.

function loadpopup()
     {
       document.flauncher.submit();
       focus();
       setTimeout('focus()',2000);
     }

Comment 3

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

This is an Java script bug. Over to DOM Level 0 for further triaging. 

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

->

Comment 5

[Mike Young]

See also bug 159036

The issue here is that javascript is submitting a form which has a target of a
new window. 

arguably, the new window is requested. (the user has submitted a form... they
probably have the alert off so they didn't notice.)

The question is whether something with a target of a new window should be
allowed to create a new window if the user didn't specifically initiate the
call. (in this case a submit() action was called from within an onload event
handler.)

I'm not sure exactly where this bug should be filed, but I do know that
discussion is already taking place in bug 159036 about what is and isn't a
requested window, and it might be best to bring this up over there.

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144726 ***