248338 - popup blocker blocks page without indicating it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202226

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

If you go to the specified URL and then click on one of the links which says
Nederlands nothing happens, also no icon is shown that a popup has been closed.
If you put www.ind.nl in the whitelist a new window is opened with the requested
pdf.

I would expect that if I click on a link that one new window can be opened if
that is the intention of the website.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Just tested the same site in mozilla 1.6. Mozilla 1.6 indicates correctly that a
popup window was blocked

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

The links go to pages that try to create pop-ups and then redirect to another
page.  The pop-up indicator disappears because you are no longer at the URL that
tried to create a pop-up.

Comment 3

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The links go to pages that try to create pop-ups and then redirect to another
> page.  The pop-up indicator disappears because you are no longer at the URL that
> tried to create a pop-up.
Why does it work correctly in mozilla 1.6 then???

Ofcourse it's evil that they make the website like this, but novice users should
get a clear indication that something was blocked.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

It might be possible to fix this bug without making Firefox's behavior seem
incorrect in other circumstances.  That's why I didn't mark the bug as invalid.

Comment 5

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

I see the same at this site:
http://www.radio538.nl/538/programmas/evers/frankronald.jsp#
When you click on "Luister"

Comment 6

[Daniel Küstner]

Can see this with FF 0.9.2 on http://www.post.ch, then follow the links "Versand
International" (left side) and then "Service Guide Online - Preisberechnung"
(bottom right).

The interesting thing is that, if you follow that link with a fresh profile, you
get the popup-manager-first-use dialog, but no indication in the status bar.

Mozilla 1.8a1 works correctly.

Comment 7

[Martin]

(In reply to comment #6)

> Can see this with FF 0.9.2 on http://www.post.ch, then follow the links "Versand
> International" (left side) and then "Service Guide Online - Preisberechnung"
> (bottom right).
> 
> The interesting thing is that, if you follow that link with a fresh profile, you
> get the popup-manager-first-use dialog, but no indication in the status bar.

Confirmed.

Comment 8

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Can we request to set this as bug that blocks FF 1.0?? For me personally this
bug is not really a problem, because I know it exists, but for a new FF user it
can be a very frustrating bug, which makes him go back to his previous browser

Comment 9

[Daniel Küstner]

Requesting blocking 1.0RC1 as per comment #8.

Comment 10

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

based on comment #2, this is a dupe of 202226

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202226 ***