Closed Bug 259805 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Popup blocker fails to block popup while loading a website and then opening a Firefox menu box

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows ME
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: pcuser15, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: CLOSEME - 07/08) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

While a web page that has a popup on it is loading or re-loading, if a user
opens a Firefox menu box (like Tools, Options or Help, About Mozilla Firefox),
the popup blocker fails and the popup will open. This occurs with popup blocking
enabled. If the menu box is not opened, the popup blocking works ok.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to http://www.indystar.com/
2.While the page is loading/re-loading (before it is finished rendering), click
on Tools, Options or Help, About Mozilla Firefox to show Firefox menu box
3.The popup box will open, even though blocking is enabled.

Actual Results:  
Popup blocking fails under these situations.

Expected Results:  
Popup blocking should function whether a Firefox menu box is open or not. I
tested on 0.9.3 and did not have this issue.
(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
> 

May be related: same thing happens when opening links in new tabs and/or
switching tabs while the new tab (with the pop-up) is loading or being closed.
I also noticed an alarming surge in popups since 1.0PR (on Linux).

Here's one site that is triggering a popup as soon as you close it's window:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259805

I think this is a major issue for spreading Firefox, after all popup blocking is
one of the major selling points.
Sorry folks, wrong link.

This is the right one:

http://synapse.netpedia.net/

I just open that site, then close the tab and a popup appears. Nothing else done
(not even accessing menus as in the original post)
I concur, I tested that site on Windows XP with Firefox 1.0PR, and when closing
the Tab, a Pop-Up Appear. ( http://synapse.netpedia.net/ ).
Blocks: pop-up-arms-race
Comments 2, 3, and 4 are Bug 259117.  Please do not post other issues in this bug.
http://www.newscientist.com defeats popup blocking using the onload and onunload
events for the <body> element. note that it is set up with a cookie to only
happen once a day.
oops i am a dumbass. 
Hi, I use MS W2k, FireFox1.0. When I visit www.yahoo.com, in particular
lowermybills.com popup keeps popping, worst yet doesn't even get flagged as
popup window. Here is the url: https://www.lowermybills.com. I thought I will
put the site into banned site list, but there is no such thing, is there?

Thanks
I saw the same in Firefox-current as of today on linux.  Instead of opening
another bug report I'll just  add a URL to the pot:
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteusnational/westcoastussatellite_large_animated.html

Does not seem to happen if I reload the page or if I open it in a new tab -- I
think it only happens when it's the first page I open after starting Firefox.

Important addendum -- I just deleted my ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and
now the popup blocker works again.

There have been many recent changes in the way preferences are stored in
your home directory.  I recommend deleting (or moving) your firefox home
directory and starting from scratch or re-importing your preferences
from mozilla/Netscape.

It worked for me.
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/2007051502 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/2007062304 Minefield/3.0a6pre.

WFM.  Reporter, or anyone else that saw this problem, can you reproduce this with the latest release of Firefox?
Whiteboard: CLOSEME - 07/08
WFM as well. Resolving as such.

If you can reproduce using Firefox 2.0.0.6 or later with a clean profile, please comment to that effect.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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