268591 - popup blocker keeps blocking popups even when disabled in prefs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260264

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I use firefox/mozilla to access some locally built tools at work.  All sites are
on our local intranet and cannot be accessed via the web.  I don't know why, but
the developers decided many of the forms/tools we use rely on pop-ups to display
certain information.  I've completely disabled the pop-up blocker, yet it
continues to block these vital pop-ups.  This was a problem on 1.0PR so I
reverted back to .9 and it worked flawlessly.  It is back again with 1.0GM.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Pop-up is using javascript.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Get error message - Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window. 
Click here for options...

The options are Block popups from site, etc.  This tells me the site is
currently unblocked!

Expected Results:  
Allow the popup to appear.

Using standard theme.  All javascript is allowed.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0 - As soon as I unchecked the block popups prefrence or listed a site
with popups as a allowed site to show popups the site was able to create a popup.

Have you tried listing the root site of your web app (such as cnn.com for
http://www.cnn.com/index.html)  as an allowed site to display popups. Tools -->
options --> web features --> click on "Allowed sites" on the same row as the
block popups prefrence --> list the root of the site you want to show popups and
click allow.

If that does not work try reproducing firefox's safe mode Start --> (All)
Programs --> Mozilla Firefox --> Mozilla Firefox(safe mode)

Or try a new profile using the profile manager directions are at
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Profile_Folder
use section 2 to pick a method of starting the profile manager and 3 to create a
new profile.

Comment 2

[John Ferguson]

I'm having the same problem with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050228 Firefox/1.0+.  It's blocking pop-ups, even though I
have it disabled in prefs.  Furthermore, the site that is sending the blocked
pop-up is in the allowed sites.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

I guess this is Bug 260264.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260264 ***

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change