259722 - Popup ad opens when site is visited despite popup blocking and javascript settings

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ross Combs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

This page somehow displays a popup window even with very minimal Javascript
settings and with popup blocking enabled (and no sites are excepted).  The code
is pretty horrible and there's a pile of frames and other things which make it
annoying to narrow down.

Reinstating the old Javascript setting to disallow "Open unrequested windows"
would be nice since the popup blocker doesn't seem to be able to prevent that.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on popup blocking.  Disable all Javascript in everything but Mozilla and
disable all actions except "change status bar text".
2. Open the example website.  Hopefully it hasn't changed since I tried it.
3. You will see an annoying popup ad on this cybersquatted website (I meant to
visit linuxgames.com).

Actual Results:  
I saw an annoying popup ad on this cybersquatted website (I meant to visit
linuxgames.com).

Expected Results:  
I did not expect a popup since I have popups blocked.  Actually I'm somewhat
worried about what other things Javascript may be doing without my knowledge. 
Popup blocking is one of the big advantages of Mozilla so I'm a little
disappointed.  I may just turn Javascript off completely.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No popup in a current trunk build.  Reporter, could you please test a trunk
build?  The popup blocker was heavily revamped recently, though those changes
didn't make 1.7.3...

Comment 2

[Ross Combs]

This is the original reporter.  I can't test the popup blocker because that site
is no longer displaying popups with either the new build or my original install.
 If you have another site with the same problem I can test it.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well.. no one really analyzed what the problem here was, so we have no idea what
the site was doing...

Marking worksforme due to lack of ability to reproduce, but please reopen if
this problem reappears.