260307 - No pop-ups even if the site is allowed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brad Dougherty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Even though I added the site to the 'Allowed Sites' list, Firefox is blocking
pop-ups. When I click on the bar and click 'Allow popups for ...' and try to
open the link again, the info bar comes up saying that it has blocked a pop-up.
But if I then click on the bar, the first option is 'Block popups for ...' If I
click the  'Show [url] option nothing happens, except that an option to show the
individual popup  is duplicated.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to site.
2. Click on link that is supposed to launch a pop-up window
3. Pop-up does not open, info bar appears informing that it has blocked a pop-up

Actual Results:  
Pop-up is still blocked.

Expected Results:  
The pop-up should be allowed.

Comment 1

[Brad Dougherty]

Attachment: Screenshot of bug

Comment 2

[Jay]

Attachment: Pop-up is blocked!

Comment 3

[Jay]

Attachment: The allowed sites dialog.

Comment 4

[Roberto Baibich]

Had the same problem, but with a caveat: the pop-up blocker will allow pop-ups
for a while, and then start blocking them. Tested on http://www.corbis.com/ and
http://www.gettyone.com/. These are image banks, try to click on "view comp" on
the images, after a while it'll begin to block'em.

Comment 5

[Craig Stevens]

I can confirm this. XP Pro SP2.  FF1.0. Using a Java based chat system.  After a
while, links to profile pages (pop ups) stop working.  All popups are allowed in
browser option.  Occasional message in top of window asking to edit popup options.  

Comment 6

[Joachim Noreiko]

I can confirm this on Mac OS X 10.3, Firefox 1.0  (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U;
PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0), website:
http://webmessenger.msn.com
I get exactly the same problem as the reporter: the info bar shows telling me it
has blocked a pop-up, but the first option in the drop-down menu on that bar is
'Block', and the site is listed in the allow pop-ups list.

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

Comment 4 and comment 5 are Bug 260264. Perhaps this one too?

Comment 6 is WFM with FF 1.0.1 on WinNT4.

Comment 8

[Stuart Rogers]

Attachment: address and popups blocked msg

Comment 9

[Stuart Rogers]

Attachment: dialog--allowed sites

Comment 10

[Stuart Rogers]

This happens on my system too, since the upgrade to 1.0.1 (Moox M3), on WinXP
SP2. I can no longer access the java popups generated by our scanner/printer.
I've tried removing the address from the Allowed list and re-adding it, but it
makes no difference.

Comment 11

[Werner Kratochwil]

I can give additional information on a bug case that might be related. 
In developing my own internet application, I came to the following: 
If the window.open command is triggered by a Button-click it works - if
triggered by a dblClick or keydown-event the error occurs. 
I will give an attachment that might help. 

Comment 12

[Werner Kratochwil]

Attachment: Button click does work- Double click in select brings the error

Hope this helps to track the error

Comment 13

[Stuart Rogers]

Werner's description is not repeatable on my machine. Both Button and
Double-click opened new windows with no errors. However, I experimented with my
own situation (trying to access 192.168.1.30/parser.cgi?default.html served by
our scanner):
If I right-click and choose Open Link in New Window, I can access the java
application, but only on the first attempt in a browser session. If I close that
window, I can't get back to it by any means without restarting the browser;
however, I do not get the "popups blocked" message from FF, just a blank window.
In a fresh browser session, if I click the link, I get a blank window and the
"popups blocked" message.

Comment 14

[Qing Tony Hao]

I can reproduce this problem on Solaris 10 with Firefox 1.5.0.4. This bug is always reproduciable.

Comment 15

[David Fraser]

I have this happening reproducibly in a Firefox 3.0.1 session on Ubuntu. I have it in a Zimbra app that's using javascript to open the popup. The bug is occuring in one profile but not in another (I have two open at once) - I'll try and see if I can work out what the difference is...

Comment 17

[David Fraser]

Ah, after closing and reopening that profile the error no longer happens. For reference, it was an https site on a nonstandard port (https://....:7071/...) as the source. The problem occured with standard config options for pop-ups (even when pop-up blocking was disabled), whether or not the site was added to the "Allow pop-ups" list.

Comment 18

[Andre Klapper]

If this is still a problem in a recent version of Firefox, can somebody please provide an exact testcase (URL) so others can try to reproduce?

Comment 19

[Jared Stafford]

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #18)
> If this is still a problem in a recent version of Firefox, can somebody
> please provide an exact testcase (URL) so others can try to reproduce?

Under normal usage (e.g. Google Reader), this takes several hours/days to reproduce, so I created a simple page which continuously opens popups:
https://www.jspenguin.org/testpopup.html

To reproduce, continue opening tabs until Firefox starts blocking all popups.

Comment 20

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to Jared Stafford from comment #19)
> Under normal usage (e.g. Google Reader), this takes several hours/days to
> reproduce, so I created a simple page which continuously opens popups:
> https://www.jspenguin.org/testpopup.html
> 
> To reproduce, continue opening tabs until Firefox starts blocking all popups.

That sounds like bug 260264.

Without a clear way to reproduce (or any recent reports of this occurring, there's not much we can do here.