190758 - Popup window is not blocked when popup blocker is active

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176079

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Voyager]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030121
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030121

The popup window for this page loads about a second after the page is fully
loaded, not simultaneously with the page.  I suspect that this might have
something to do with this occurance.  After the page loads, the popup window
jumps right out every time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.zwan.com/zwanJump1.html
2. Let the entire page load fully.
3. Wait a second.
Actual Results:  
A popup appears, even though popup blocker is on.

Expected Results:  
Blocked the popup window.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like that window is opened by the Flash plugin, not by Mozilla (no flash
== no window).

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

http://www.betanews.com also have popups sometimes though you have popup
blocking enabled.

Comment 3

[Voyager]

With respect to Comment 1, I can see the point, but still it would be nice to
have a way to control all unrequested popups, flash or html.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We can't control what the flash plugin does.  It is an independent program
running on your computer that is not under Mozilla's control in any way.  If it
wanted to, it could erase your hard drive, and we wouldn't even know it happened
till we tried to read something off said hard drive.

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

Not to mention the fact that this is WFM with 2003012504 / XP.  I load the site
and see the telltale status bar "!" indicating a blocked pop-up.  Nor do I see a
pop-up.  (Which would seem to contradict the comments that this is Flash related...)

Comment 6

[Ian Nartowicz]

I get the popup although popups are disabled.  Win98.  Build ID 2003012508.  If
I completely disable javascript for navigator then I get no popup.  The
javascript seems to be getting called from the flash plugin (?).

Comment 7

[Voyager]

>>We can't control what the flash plugin does.  It is an independent program
running on your computer that is not under Mozilla's control in any way.

Point taken.  But many independent popup suppressors, such as Free Surfer
(http://www.emsproject.com/FS/Support.htm) for IE is able to block the same popup.

>>I load the site and see the telltale status bar "!" indicating a blocked pop-up.

Really?  wow.  I couldn't even install the 20030125 build, it's giving me some
kind of a corrupt file error at installation.

Comment 8

[Voyager]

>>I completely disable javascript for navigator then I get no popup.

Yep, thanks for pointing that out.  Seems to be javascript rather than flash.

Comment 9

[Voyager]

Here's something I found out at the Mozilla Windows user Newsgroup: If one puts

user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 3000);

this line in their user.js or prefs.js file, it stops the popup for appearing. 
Basically it makes a mandatory response time of at most 3 seconds.  My test was
successful, i.e. the popup was blocked once I added this code and restarted
Mozilla.  So, in the whole, it looks like it's a time-delayed popup generated by
javascript.  I know next to nothing about coding, but perhaps the popup
suppressor could be modified to include that line.

Comment 10

[earthsound]

Mozilla 1.4a, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a)
Gecko/20030401, Windows XP Professional, build 2600.xpsp1.020828-1920

Confirmed. Should this be duped against bug 193872, as that one has a test case?
Namely, window.open is not getting suppressed.

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176079 ***