296646 - Opening this page causes pop-ups (number varies, sometimes 2 sometimes none) even when no links are clicked.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282931

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steven Bailey]

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

When opening the page at http://www.spacedaily.com pop-up windows are sometimes
generated.  No other action by the user seems to be required other than opening
the aforementioned webpage.  The number of pop-up windows generated varies. 
Sometimes there are none.  Sometimes I've had as many as two appear.  The
pop-ups regularly link to "205.180.85.40" and "a.tribalfusion.com."

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open URL http://www.spacedaily.com
2. The first time you do this, it regularly opens at least one pop-up, but you
seem to have to wait awhile (an hour? a day?) before the next time you open the
webpage before it creates the pop-up again.

Actual Results:  
Creates between zero and 2 pop-up windows.

Expected Results:  
The pop-ups should have been blocked, I think.

I'm running windows 2000 SP4, Firefox 1.04.
Using an Athlon XP 2100+ w/ 512 MB PC 2100 RAM in Dual Channel mode on an ASUS
A7N8X Delux mainboard, if that matters.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050603
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060317

WFM

Probably a Flash related popup.

This is with
privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins = 2

Steven do you get the popup with the above setting?

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060401

WFM

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

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

Comment 4

[Steven Bailey]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM
> Probably a Flash related popup.
> This is with
> privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins = 2
> Steven do you get the popup with the above setting?

Jamie,

I'll have to try again tomorrow, because I've apparently gotten my pop-up quota
for today.  Even without implementing the setting you mention, I am getting no
pop-ups at the moment.

I'm a novice at best, but I'll try to assist.  Could you tell me in a little
more detail how to implement the setting you describe?

-Steven