154270 - Pop-ups appear even though configured NOT to!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 126224

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[tom.williams]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020622
BuildID:    2002062208

When I browse this page:  http://www.humanforsale.com/default.asp
I get tons of popups, when I DO NOT have Mozilla configured to allow unsolicited
windows to popup and appear.  This Mozilla feature DOES work on a LOT of sites,
but not the one above.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure Mozilla to NOT allow unsolicited windows from scripts in the Advance
"Scripts & Windows" configuration area
2.Go to: http://www.humanforsale.com/default.asp
3.Popups should appear when they should not.

Actual Results:  Popups appear unexpectedly.

Expected Results:  Popups on this page should NOT appear.

Comment 1

[Moiz Dohadwala]

reproduced on win2k sp2 mozilla 1.1a build 2002061104 for the url mentioned in
the bug

one of the important reasons why i use mozilla is to suppress pop-up. this is a
disaster for me. if web developers learn of this hole, pops will rule once again.

This bug should be classified as critcal!

Comment 2

[Greg L.]

no popups for me using 20020625

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

WFM in 2002062308 PC/Win98.

Reporter, if you try the page with a new profile, does the problem persist?

Comment 4

[tom.williams]

Attachment: Screen shot of Mozilla "Scripts & Windows" settings

I STILL get this behavior w/ the 2002062608 Win32 build running on Windows NT
4.0 SP6.  I created a *NEW* profile and configured the "Scripts and Windows"
settings the same as my regular profile and I STILL get this behavior (the
popups STILL popup).

I've attached a screen shot of my settings.

Peace....

Tom

Comment 5

[tom.williams]

I reported a flase problem where I could NOT access http://www.ferrari.com since
the MAIN PAGE appeared in a popup and my current settings prevented that popup
from appearing.

So, I don't know why these popups are appearing.

Peace....

Tom

Comment 6

[Matt Arnold]

I'm not getting popups on the the Human for Sale page, but I am getting them
again on Linux Games http://www.linuxgames.com . They just recently started
showing up again. I saw it on another site too. Have the ad companies already
figured out a way to work around this? This is with Mozilla 1.0 in Linux.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Linuxgames is bug 153778, which is a dup of bug 126224.

I can't reproduce at humanforsale, but it uses the same ad provider as
Linuxgames (mediamgr.ugo.com), so I bet it's the same code.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126224 ***

Comment 8

[Matt Arnold]

I don't believe that this bug is resolved. Bug 126244 was marked as fixed in
March! How can it be fixed if I'm having this problem with Mozilla 1.0 which was
released in June?

Comment 9

[Matt Arnold]

Sorry about the typo. I meant to type bug 126224 in my previous message.

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

v

Comment 11

[Ross Combs]

I reported the popups at linuxgames as well, but at the .org version (the
typical cybersquatting search engine), and not the real .com version.  I didn't
see this bug report in my search because it was so old.  This problem has been
around for a while, and as of last week, linuxgames.org doesn't have popups
anymore.  This is due to a change at the site, not to a change in Mozilla.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259722