296875 - popup blocker fails to block popup

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[Bernard Spatz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Firefox 1.0.4 fails to block popup at http://www.instant-movie-making.com/
This is believed to be linked to the information at - 
http://www.createandsellproductsonline.com/
which offers code to get round popup blockers.
"Popups will play a crucial role in gaining you more subscribers. But exit pops 
will also provide you with a residual income from those who were about to leave 
your website anyway. That's right, I'm going to show you exactly how to make 
money from people who are exiting your site! 
This unique bonus will provide you with the software necessary to generate your 
popups. I sell it separately for $34.95, but it is yours absolutely free for 
acting today. 
Newly updated. Now you'll also get access to a pop-over script that will defy 
those popup blockers now standard with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and all Google 
and Yahoo toolbars."
How can we stop the perpetrator of this?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. access http://www.instant-movie-making.com/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
A popup appeared.

Expected Results:  
Block the popup.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050606
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060607

WFM

Comment 2

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
Confirmed, but it's not technically a popup what appears.
It doesn't open in a new window, but actually displays some sort of floating div
inside the page with advertising. Might be prudent to revise if this kind of
behavior should be blocked or controlled somehow.

Comment 3

[Xorgroth]

First off wanted to say wasn't sure how to contact devlopers...
Anyway, I went through a site that created popups to test your browser's popup
blocking ability, as I have seen a big increase in Firefox's allowed
popups...and other popup blockers I have used. So far Firefox had failed in the
following at http://www.popupcheck.com and all failed tests done at
http://www.popupcheck.com/popup_test.asp
Click/Re-Load Popup, Floating Popup Test, Launch Close, All user Launched popups
(Although, I don't mind most of these because I often use them for personal
website galleries, although the delayed one think it shouldn't be
displayed.)Flash Ads...only seen one program that blocks these
http://www.popupcheck.com/flash-popup.asp (Example)

Overall I would be very proud of the results...like IE which failed miserably
even with SP2...To Jorge, try getting a secondary popup blocker for the time
being, maybe one that will allow you to configure everything you want blocked.

Comment 4

[Ursache Marian]

Also found a site that manages to open a popup window with the popup blocker
activated  http://isohunt.com/

Comment 5

[Thomas M]

And here's yet another one:
http://www.ratiatum.com

Comment 6

[Mike Alterman]

I am running Firefox 1.0.7 on a win2k box and when I visit
http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/
I get a pop up even with pop up blocking enabled.

This has been happening for more than a week.

Also, the page scrolls to the bottom - no key presses.

This does not happen at work using IE6.

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

That is no popup window, that is html styled to look like a popup

--> INVALID

Comment 8

[Pierre]

I disagree, for http://ratiatum.com there are real popup windows when you click on links