294179 - Frequent popups from URLs like this,

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 282931

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[spamcatcherjohn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
http://www.orlandoweekly.com

These 2 pages produce a reliable popup after closing each particular tab.  They
are the only popups I get with the exception of CNN.com's  "Set your edition" popup.
The URL is different every time, but it's always a complicated one similar to
this one.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start FFox  (The above URLs are some of my Homepages.)
2. Close either URL's tab.
3.  Close the resultant popups.

Actual Results:  
Popup appears.  I have all popups redirected to another tab (extension added in
does that)

Expected Results:  
Blocked it!

I selected "MAJOR" below simply because popup-blocking is one of the key
"selling" points for switch to FFox.  Seems the popup-makers are trying
something new?
Sick the Fox on them!  GRRRRR!  :)

Comment 1

[spamcatcherjohn]

Firefox is a fantastic browser.  I switched from IE in 2003 when FFox was still
beta.  Keep up the great work, and thanks for a wonderful program that nobody
can take away from me!

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

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