283496 - pop up blocker doesn't work on www.hindustantimes.com

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282931

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ambuj]

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

There are couple of sites where popup blocker doesnt work. Of course, its
enabled for these sites.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load  http://www.hindustantimes.com/ will get a pop up
2. go to http://www.indianexpress.com/index.html and click on any news. it will
give full page popup
Actual Results:  
got pop up

Expected Results:  
should not have let pop up apear

Comment 1

[Dan M]

www.hindustantimes.com at this time makes two attempts to open a popup window.
One is in script that's executed at page initialization, and one is the now
infamous fastclick script. The former is not a problem for any version of
Firefox less than one year old. The latter is new since last I visited this
site. I assume that's the popup you're seeing.

Welcome, hindustantimes, to the rapidly growing fastclick family of advertisers.
That makes this bug yet another report of the fastclick script, now showing at
theatres everywhere.

PS: www.indianexpress.com is a different issue entirely. That's a duplicate of
bug 263777.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282931 ***