225058 - Popup windows do not work on this web site whether or not the site is exempted from popup blocking or if popup blocking is disabled altogether.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222733

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[jwbodnar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Pages like this make up the catalog for this web CD merchant.  In all previous
versions of Mozilla I have used (and I verified this with 1.4.1 to be sure),
clicking on a script letter "I" on, when present, the left will give you a popup
window for more details about a particular recording.

This no longer works in Mozilla 1.5, 1.6a, or Firebird 0.7.  Clicking on the
script letter "I" causes the hourglass icon to appear, and the browser fetches a
page, but instead of opening the popup window, it only reloads the web page
already displayed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the URL shown (use previous or next to see more of the same kind of pages).

2. Click the script letter "I" icon to the left of any of the catalog entries
that have one.

3. Browser will show page loading activity, but no popup appears.  This occurs
whether or not popup blocking is enabled or not, whether the site is exempted
from popup blocking or not, and never results in a blocked popup icon being
shown in the lower right hand corner of the browser window.
Actual Results:  
The web page simply reloads and the popup never appears.

Expected Results:  
A popup window with text data should appear when the script letter "I" icon next
to any catalog entry that has one is clicked.

This web page works properly in Mozilla 1.4.1 and earlier.  It also works in
Internet Explorer 5.0.

It does not work under Mozilla 1.5, 1.6a, or Mozilla Firebird 0.7.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

the popup isn't blocked, it's just that an error appears while trying to execute
the javascript and so the order isn't executed.
in the js console appears this error:
Error: setting a property that has only a getter

the code is this one:
<a
href="/Exp_asp/oldNRs_exp.asp?curpage=37&amp;code=&amp;begins=&amp;all=&amp;all2="
onclick="window.open('../details/8120692.htm', 'mdt', config='width=620,
height=480,scrollbars=yes,resizable=0,centered=true')">
    <img src="../images/info.gif" border="0"></a>

the problem is the config= part, just removing it the code is executed without
problems.

I think that this is just a problem of a poorly coded page and so it should be
placed in Evangelism, but I don't know if it should be worth to change Mozilla
to workaround this problem (I don't think so)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222733 ***

Comment 3

[HJ]

Reopening . This is not a dup of bug 222733 "document.config should be renamed
to document.domConfig to match the changes in DOM Level 3 Core (not yet published)"

Comment 4

[HJ]

Oops, me bad. This *is* a dup of bug 222733 (:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222733 ***