Closed Bug 153606 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

NYTimes.com can still open unrequested windows with setting turned off

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 132031

People

(Reporter: giskard22, Assigned: rogerl)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

Even with the JavaScript setting "allow pages to open unrequested windows"
turned off, pop-up ads still appear from www.nytimes.com.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla.
2. In Preferences, under Advanced/Scripts & Plugins, "Navigator" should be
checked, "Open unrequested windows" should not be checked. I don't think any
other settings matter, but I have the rest of the "allow webpages to" items checked.
3. Go to http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion

Actual Results:  A pop-up ad should appear.

Expected Results:  No pop-up ad should have been created.

I believe this will work for any page at the site other than the main
index.html. It only happens once per browsing session, so there's probably a
temporary cookie involved.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132031 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified Duplicate.

Matt, thank you for your report. We do have a pref setting to stop this,
but it has not yet been given a GUI interface. You have been cc'ed on 
the bug to fix that (bug 132031).
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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