286232 - popups not handled correctly (open in same window as opposed to popping up)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Anish Patel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050312 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050312 Firefox/1.0+

popup links on the betanews.com site do not work correctly.  (I have set my
prefs to allow popups from *.betanews.com).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.betanews.com
2. following down the right side of the screen, you will see a "View Changes",
"watch", and "ignore" icon next to the software titles.  Click on one of these
links.
3.

Actual Results:  
The popup shows up in the original window as if it was a normal link.  This is
an issue because it does not allow me to use the intended functionality.  For
example, when clicking on "watch", I want to add the respective file to my watch
list.  However, when the link is clicked, the new window does not reflect my
"watched" software.

Expected Results:  
Link should be displayed in a popup window.

Comment 1

[Dan M]

Alright, I'll bite. You know Firefox can be configured intentionally to behave
as you describe by ticking a couple of buttons in the Options dialog. The only
other cause for such behaviour that I can think of is extensions. Can you rule
out both of those?

Comment 2

[Anish Patel]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The only other cause for such behaviour that I can think of is extensions. 
> Can you rule out both of those?

Before filing the bug, I tried running Firefox in safemode - in order to rule
out extensions and the problem still existed.

However, after reading your reply, I tested using a new profile and the problem
does not occur so it is indeed an extension issue.  Sorry.