275670 - Pop ups blocked when they should be allowed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260264

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul White]

I have been using Firefox 1 to access my spreadbetting account. Part of the
facilities available on the site are graphing windows which appear as a pop-up.
Usually they pop up with no problem, but partway through a session they will
suddenly be blocked and an error message appears:-
"Ref: PEr3- System Error: This system is unable to create a pop-up window on
your browser. Try this option again while holding the Ctrl key."
The title of the error window is "[JavaScript Application]".
Pop-ups are not blocked in my browser and holding Ctrl does not help.

My account is held at www.easy2spreadbet.co.uk, perhaps they can help to resolve
the issue.

I will be happy to answer any further questions you may have.

Regards

Paul

Comment 1

[Paul White]

Attachment: Error message generated.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If you set the pref dom.popup_maximum higher than the default 20 (type
about:config in the addressbar, then popup_max in the Filter input, double-click
the line for dom.popup_maximum and enter a new number), does it either stop
complaining or complain later in a session?

Or, alternatively, when they won't pop up, are you on a page which has stalled
partway through loading (the circle of dots in the upper right is still spinning)?

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

it would help to get more technical description of what's happening. Have you
tried asking the easy2spreadbet people about it?

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #2)
> If you set the pref dom.popup_maximum higher than the default 20 (type
> about:config in the addressbar, then popup_max in the Filter input, double-click
> the line for dom.popup_maximum and enter a new number), does it either stop
> complaining or complain later in a session?

If so this would be a dupe of Bug 260264.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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