283976 - Pop-up on hovering on certain links (intellitxt.com ad)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc DVer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227 Firefox/1.0+

In the above url, there are certain links that, when hovering on them (i.e.,
putting your mouse on them, but not clicking them) a pop-up comes up, but goes
away when you move the mouse away.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2239
2. Hover over the buffer overflow link in the main area of the text.


Actual Results:  
The annoying pop-up showed.

Expected Results:  
Ideally, there would be an option in the program setup to allow or disallow this
kind of action.

Comment 1

[jpl24]

Note that this isn't actually a popup but a floater. Would be nice to be able to
stop these, but definitely a RFE. This is a dup too, but I can't find the bug
number.

Comment 2

[Warner Young]

You can install something like AdBlock and have it block intellitxt.com items. 
That's what I did to stop these floaters.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Yes these are no popups, the ads are like a huge title/alt tool tip. Use Adblock
extension with this filter rule to block this.

/(doubleclick|fastclick|spinbox|falkag|vibrantmedia|intellitxt|paypopup)\./

So you avoid also the new flash popups from fastclick/paypopup.

No bug in FF itself.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 295559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***