254059 - Popup blocker closes valid already open page upon javascript command

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102481

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jason Silverman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040709 Firefox/0.9.2 (MOOX-AV)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040709 Firefox/0.9.2 (MOOX-AV)

Using 0.9.2 or up to 8/2 branch build, the Firefox popup blocker closes an
already open window when a (javascript) link is clicked.

This is what happens:

Login to Microsoft Outlook Web Access application/script (version 5.5).  Open an
email, it opens in a new window.  Click the "reply" (or "forward" or etc)
button.  The window viewing the email closes and nothing else opens!

If popup blocker is disabled, after hitting reply, a new compose screen opens in
the same window as where the email was, as it should.

The "reply" button is a javascript:DoCommand('reply') link that calls the
function DoCommand(szCommand).  This function sets window.location.

I've seen people talking about problems with the popup blocker and not allowing
pages to load while the initial webpage is still loading but this is not the
case here.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is a bug in OWA, not a bug in Firefox.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102481 ***