253155 - Securety icon cover Popup Blocker one

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

When using https, the locker icon is placed where the popup icon was supposed to
shown, leting users to get the impression the web site isn't working, when it
is, but the windows were blocked.

Many web banks use popup windows and this is bad to firefox users, since firefox
came with popup blocker active by default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access a secure http site
2. Activate a javascript that calls window.open()
3. Look at the bottom-left, there's only the "locker icon".



Expected Results:  
There should be two icons, one for the popup blocker and other for the secure
connection.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Please, give us an URL to test what you mean.

Thanks.

Comment 2

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

http://gustavo.ltc.ic.unicamp.br/test-firefox-bug.html

Additional Information:

When I received the mail asking for an URL I started to investigate and
discovered the problem is else where: It's not the "locker icon" that was
covering the "popup blocker icon", but the net banking site that was using a
weired combination:

   window.open( url )
   history.go( -1 )

What happens is the desired icon flashes (appear and go away). This happens due
the history.go() command.

I don't see a clear solution to this bug. If it's possible, leave the popup
blocker icon after the page is leave.
   But this will lead to the icon always being displayed...
   Another solution would be to keep the icon if the domain is the same or if
the page was redirected using history.go(), parent.url, ... or some other
javascript resource.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Gustavo

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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