191939 - Pop-up blocker doesn't work properly, also need to have it so it can block ALL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tony O]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

The pop-up blocker is not working properly. When I choose a site to block and
the hit the refresh, the pop-up still comes up.  It should also have the feature
to BLOCK ALL pop-up sites!.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I go to the site 
2.Then choose TOOLS/Pop-up Manager/Block Pop-ups from this site
3.Then it confirms
4.I then hit REFRESH upon that website and the pop-ups continue coming up
5.I've also tried removing Cache (mem and disk), and exiting Mozilla
6.Then I return to that website and the pop-ups come up again.



Expected Results:  
It would be wonderful if this would work.  Also, it should also have the ability
to BLOCK ALL sites with pop-ups.  Thank you!

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> It should also have the feature to BLOCK ALL pop-up sites!

Preferences > Privacy and Security > Popup Windows > "Suppress Popups"

Comment 2

[Jason Bassford]

The pop-ups denied not sticking sounds like a dupe of bug 190371, which was
fixed on 1/29.  Have you tried a current build?

Comment 3

[earthsound]

Depending on the URL (which is lacking in this report), different methods are
used to get around the pop-up blocker. 

1) document.write (bug 187255)
2) window.open (bug 193872)

there may be others, but these 2 seem to be the most prevalent...

Comment 4

[Joe Infla]

Popup-blocking is whitelist based now, rather than blacklist.  Marking WFM. 
Reporter, if there are specific sites you encounter where popups are not blocked
but should be, please reopen this bug with links (making sure they aren't based
on the two methods cited in comment 3).