283550 - popups are beginning to get through in the past month. Feb 24, 2005

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282931

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[mikemare]

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

www.hutchnews.com
www.wichitaeagle.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just bring up the web page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
popups occur

Expected Results:  
blocked the popups

Comment 1

[Dan M]

www.hutchnews.com at this time makes two attempts to open a popup window. One is
in a load handler, and one is the now infamous fastclick script. The former is
not a problem for any version of Firefox less than one year old. I imagine the
latter is the popup you're seeing.

www.wichitaeagle.com makes no attempt to open a popup window. It simply
redirects to www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/. I can find only one popup window at
that site. It attempts to open a survey randomly 1 visit in 10 if you haven't
been there in the last 2000 hours (it uses a cookie for the timer). The window
is simply opened in the page's load handler. Reporter if you saw *that* popup
something's wrong with your copy of Firefox.

These two sites use very different techniques to attempt to open a popup, so
this is at best two bug reports. However the first is simply a duplicate of bug
282931. We need more details on case (2) if this is to remain as a stand-alone
bug report. I can't imagine why an undamaged build of Firefox would show the
kansas.com popup. Reporter please try it with a new profile or at least after
disabling extensions and any other third-party software that may be interfering,
and include more complete steps to reproduce.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

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

Comment 3

[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