285776 - Pop ups from this site are somehow circumventing Mozilla's pop up blocker

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[johnny]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 (ax)

The complete address for one specific pop up that continues to evade Mozilla's
pop up block is
http://z1.adserver.com/w/cp.x;rid=652;tid=5;ev=2;ac=60;mid=5038
Z1 apparently has found a way to circumvent Mozilla's pop up blocker. I do NOT
have it entered in my "pop up exceptions." These pop ups are getting more and
more frequent, now a couple of times a day at least.  

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce




The pop ups seem very random and pop up visiting completely different sites,
that  don't seem related in any way.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Your URL is the ad, that is useless. We need the URL which opens that ad/pop up
to see how it works. If you cannot provide such an URL, this bug should be closed.

Comment 2

[Costa Gauci]

Hi there,

I have found another site with pop-under that evades Mozilla:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/lite/t-129341.html

It only occurs the once but if you clear your history and revisit it occurs again.


Costa

Comment 3

[Mike Yohe]

Here's another site that circumvents pop-up blocker:

http://www.bobbrinker.com/secure/mktmrlogin.asp

It doesn't do it every time, but frequently enough.  View Source on this page
may be instructive.  

Comment 4

[Gad Krosner]

Another site that goes around the blocker:
www.jpost.com - I think it saves a cookie so, if you open it again from the same
machine, it doesn't pop-under again.  

Comment 5

[Kevin]

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11914 seems to be using similiar code, as I'm
getting tribalfusion.com pops from them when visiting cdreaks.com

Comment 6

[Mike Alterman]

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/index.html     (Dilbert)
http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/                      (Non Sequitur)

I too have seen popups appear even with 'Block popup Windows' checked from these
sites - not every time but frequently and the advertiser address is
http://a.tribalfusion.com.

I don't recall these 'pests' appearing with prior versions of Firefox -
currently using 1.04.

Comment 7

[Marcus Wendel]

I've had the problem with ads from tribalfusion when visiting
www.experts-exchange.com from a Google search result.

Comment 8

[Marcus Wendel]

Another site with popups that show up in Firefox: http://febbrasil.cjb.net/

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

Comment 9

[u63580]

This info eally belongs in bug 253831 (which is a collecting point for websites
which evade the pop up blocker).  Howevre, should this bug be duped should
something else be done?

Comment 10

[OstGote!]

No further response from the reporter, so resolve this bug as INVALID (see
comment 1).

All the other commenters: Please read and comment in bug 253831 only or in your
own bug reports.