265186 - Several links on drudgereport.com have popups that Firefox doesn't block.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263777

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Royce Stute]

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

Several links on this site have popups that mozilla doesn't block.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Browse to http://www.drudgereport.com/
2.Click on a link
3.

Actual Results:  
popups occur.

Expected Results:  
popups should have been blocked.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001
Firefox/0.10.1

I didn't see any pop-ups and Firefox claimed to have blocked one.

Is your Firefox oldish?

Comment 2

[Royce Stute]

I am running Firefox version 1.0 Preview Release.

Also, I should note that just browsing to http://www.drudgereport.com/
won't cause the popups I am refering to but if you click on some of the
links on the http://www.drudgereport.com/ web page you will get the
popups that firefox won't block.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041030
Firefox/0.9.1+

(Compiled using the standard instructions)

I have clicked on some of the links, and got no pop-ups. Possibly the problems
have been fixed unceremoniously by patches in the past ten days.

Do you have a more specific recipe?

Comment 4

[Royce Stute]

I'm curious.  It appears you are testing on a Macintosh machine.  Have
you tried testing on a "Windows" machine?  I am running Windows XP Professional 
with service pack 2. 

Comment 5

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040804 Firefox/0.9.3

No. I haven't tried on Windows. This Firefox from SuSE 9.1 (with updates);
their version 0.9.3-1.4; and there were no pop-ups on some of the links.

A simpler test case would help, it is possible that your problem is
only seem on the branch you are using, or as you say, on your platform.

Comment 6

[Royce Stute]

Do any of the developers there run windows xp so they can quickly install the 
firfox browser and verify the bug?  

Reguarding the test case I don't believe there is any way of making a simpler 
test case.

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 269324 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[OstGote!]

WFM ... I tested it and my FF 1.0 en-US blocked the popup and I don't get any
others. Look at the source code. The site uses pop unders dependent on time (not
link clicking?).

http://code.fastclick.net/pu.js

called with 

<!-- INTERMARKETS POP-UNDER CODE v2.0 for drudgereport.com -->
...
<script language="javascript"><!--
var min_hour_frequency=12; var fastclick_site_id=8627;
document.write('<scr'+'ipt language="javascript" '+
'src="http://code.fastclick.net/pu.js"></scr'+'ipt>'); // -->
</script>
<!-- INTERMARKETS.COM POP-UNDER CODE v2.0 for drudgereport.com  -->

Comment 9

[Bernard Duffy]

Not a fix, but you can download the "Adblock" extension and block the
Fastclick.net script elements until somebody figures out a way to block this
natively.

Comment 10

[Lesley Hoenig]

I am also having problems with this site, pop up ads show up whenever a link
from drudgereport is clicked.  Most recently, the ad was from tickle.

Comment 11

[Lesley Hoenig]

I forgot to mention that I have these popups and I am using Windows 2000 and
firefox 1.0, so it isn't only people with prior to the 1.0 release.  This only
started happening this past week. 

Comment 12

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #10)
> I am also having problems with this site, pop up ads show up whenever a link
> from drudgereport is clicked.  

You are describing in your words the problem that this bug is all about. If 
you need help or support, you might want to go to 
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1240477 .

Comment 13

[Lesley Hoenig]

(In reply to comment #12)

> You are describing in your words the problem that this bug is all about. If 
> you need help or support, you might want to go to 
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1240477 .
> 

Thank you, that link did indeed solve my problem.

Comment 14

[OstGote!]

See bug 253831 comment 231.

Comment 15

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #14)
> See bug 253831 comment 231.

Hmm ... I don't see anymore a fastclick script at this site (like in comment 8).
So it seems not to be a dupe of bug 282931.

Comment 16

[OstGote!]

See bug 282722 comment 5. They use the onclick handler now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263777 ***