202286 - website opens unrequested popup windows in spite the browser has 'suppress windows' option turned on

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176079

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Karol Kowalski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

This site uses such trick: first function OpenFullScreen(parameter) is defined,
and then a reference to this function is passed via the parameter in the Flash
animation PARAM
e.g. <PARAM NAME=movie
VALUE="sniffer2002.swf?URL=javascript:openFullScreen(\'_mainsite_flash/index.php\')
">
I don't know much about Flash, but I assume that it can use this reference to
call function. The effect is unrequested window whitout any reaction from the
browser. Of course I have the option Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy & Security
-> Popup Windows set to 'Supress Popups', ando also no exceptions are defined.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make sure you have the 'Supress popups' turned on
2.go to the specified URL
3.watch and curse
Actual Results:  
The pop-up window appeared

Expected Results:  
It shouldn't open the window. It should show the icon and/or play the sound (it
depends on the settings).

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Nothing to do with JavaScript Engine!!! Reassigning to Browser-General.
There are many ways sites can try to get around popup blocking.

Compare bug 144726,
"Can use form.submit() to circumvent popup blocking, window.open() prefs"

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

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