245858 - popup blocker blocks opening new windows, even if requested.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101190

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Robin Knapp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

On pages that have a long loading time there are problems opening javascript
popups and links with target=_blank
If you load a page, dor example an image gallery which will take some time, you
have to wait till the site is completely loaded. Even pressing Stop doesn't
allow you to open links which open a new window.
If there are images (for example ad banners) which won't load maybe because the
server is down, page won't finish loading, so cannot open requested windows/popups.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open an image gallery where images are opened in a new window (see
demonstration URL)
2. (optional) try to open an image while page is loading
3. stop loading using the Stop button
4. try to open an image
Actual Results:  
while page loading or after stopped page loading, clicking a JavaScript or
target=_blank is ignored

Expected Results:  
even while loading, requested windows/popups should not be blocked.
after stopping loading, requested windows/popups must not be blocked.

Comment 1

[Bernhard Schelling]

The same behavior appears on mozilla. At least under Windows 2000. Occurred
always, on multiple machines.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Looks like a dupe of Bug 101190.

Comment 3

[Robin Knapp]

yes, it's a dup of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101190 but there
wasn't mentioned that it still occurs after pressing Stop button.

After pressing Stop the popup blocker should behave like after page has finished
loading.

Comment 4

[Robin Knapp]

oh, I'm sorry, it's mentioned there, but not explicitely.
however, marking as dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101190 ***