284528 - Firefox forgets which sites are allowed to create popups after extended use. complete restart temporarily fixes problem

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260264

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dragonrider]

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

Mozilla firefox 1.0 running on unmodified windows XP Dell inspiron 2650 laptop
with integrated SP2 will occasionally forget which sites are allowed to create
popups. this generaly occurs after three or ore hours of continuous use with
popups occuring form one site on the allow list (www.we-love-anime.com/forum 
great anime forum...) on an average of 1 every one to two minutes. the popups
are generated with PHPBB code running on a linux machine (i am unable to get
more specifics on the server end as i donot own the server and the owner is
rather busy)

this is not a major bug. more of an annoyance than anyting else. a complete
close of firefox and a repoening fixes the problem.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start firefox
2.surf for 3-5 hours with regular popups from an allowed site
3.occasionally firefox will starrt to block ALL popups even those from trusted sites

Actual Results:  
exactly as described. firefox will start to block popups.

Expected Results:  
allowed popups

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Workaround: Change the value of the pref dom.popup_maximum to a higher value
with about:config.

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