260936 - Closing window (or tab) after visiting page generates popups even when disabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259117

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Christopher Curzio]

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

The summary pretty much says it all. I currently have popups blocked in my
preferences. I went to www.somethingaful.com (URL is NOT misspelled) and found
that it was able to defeat the popup blocker when you close the window or tab. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit www.somethingaful.com
2. Close the window or tab used to view it
3. Observe two popups.

Actual Results:  
Two popup windows appeared

Expected Results:  
Blocked the popups.

Comment 1

[Simopekka Säteri]

I can reproduce this bug also with Linux Firefox 1.0PR, but
it does not happen when you close a TAB with CTRL+W

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; @AB_CD@; rv:1.8a4)
Gecko/20040923 Firefox/0.9.1+

There is a small frame at '/top.php' which has a popunder javascript
on 'body unload' that calls window.open( ).

The second time I tried this, the frame I spoke of, ingeniously called "popup
management" goes into a zombie-like state in which I cannot close it at all and
menus are disabled (that is probably a Mac thing).

FWIW, part of the problem here is that we advertise 'popup blocking': apart
from the fact that it must appear rude to people who have a need for
pop-ups on their site, it is a clear challenge - in your face - to the black
hats, and just asking for trouble. I don't want trouble when I use a browser:
but I never, ever, ever want a remote site to open a window through javascript
without my express permission. I don't think that Firefox has has option, but
my recollection is that iCab does.

Comment 3

[lexi]

260025 is a duplicate of this bug

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259117 ***