281110 - Firefox fails to open popup window under any conditions though IE and Mozilla both work.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Petzinger]

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

The page I referenced above requires account login to access, so I copied the
source and included the source in an attached text file.
1. The windows popup perfectly using IE or MOZILLA, believe it or not! But NOT
FIREFOX!!!!!!
2. All browsers work the same whether or not POPUP BLOCKING is disabled. IOW,
disabling popup blocking does no good in FIREFOX & enabling popup blocking
doesn't bother Mozilla (
3. The only hotspots that work at this site are ones that do not open a new
window. If a hotspot opens a new window, FIREFOX will not open it when clicked.
4. The cursor does change to a hand over these hotspots.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. The public www.brownco.com site does not show this problem. Popup windows are
apparently used only once you have logged on to your account.
2. Examine the HTML code for the page I provided and the link address of the
popup window. Basically EVERY POPUP WINDOW on Brownco's customer-only site is
inoperative under 
3.

Actual Results:  
When you click on the TRADE column in the attached web page, nothing happens,
except a faint dotted window around the characters >>. Disabling popups does no
good, nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
A window is supposed to pop up to allow you to trade a stock. This behaviour
correctly occurs using Mozilla or IE, but not using Firefox.

The following is the URL of a button that refuses to open a popup window like it
should:

javascript:window.name='mainw';winOpenTrade('/brownco/trade_stocks/trade_stocks_popup.jsp?brnTradeInstrumentType_requestscope=Stock&pageid=10&framework.html.RequestingPageName=brownco/quotes/stock_quotes_detail.jsp','&BRN_TRADE_STOCKS_QUOTE_SYMBOL_requestscope=','SUNW','Trade',660,360);

The "page source" obtained by right-click in the middle of the page, will be
attached in a "Create a new attachment link" to this bug report

Comment 1

[John Petzinger]

Attachment: Description of problem then the page's HTML code (text file)

Please examine the page code at the end of this attachment and determine why it
works in IE and in Mozilla but does NOT work in Firefox. I cannot use Firefox
to access a major online brokerage (HTTP://WWW.BROWNCO.COM) because popup
windows will not pop up.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Any messages in Tools > JavaScript Console? Could you try it on a build from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ ?

Comment 3

[Aja Lapus]

I encounter this problem, too, everytime I open popups in any website.
Especially Haloscan comment popups which I use very often. It would never open
popups whether or not the popup blocker is running, even if I restart Firefox
and/or reload the page. Btw, I am using Firefox 1.0.3 on Windows XP SP2. I have
not encountered this problem when using earlier versions of Fx (1.0.2 or lower)
before 1.0.3 was released.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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