297179 - Previous version blocked popup at site, current version does not

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[Ross Nicholson]

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

Previously no popups would appear at dilbert.com when using firefox (although
they always did with IE). Since upgrading to version 1.0.4, a popup now appears
the first time I view the site each day. Once it has been viewed no further
popups will appear in further visits that day.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.dilbert.com
2. A popup will appear
3. Revisit the same site sometime later
4. Popup will not appear

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050608
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

WFM too with lastest trunk build.

Please reopen if you can reproduce with a trunk build

Comment 3

[Ross Nicholson]

Sorry, I don't know what a trunk build is??? Am I not using one? I'm on version
1.0.4

Here's some more info. Firefox even says 

"Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window. Click here for options..."

but the popup opens anyway. After this if you revisit that day the popup will
not open, I guess this is until the popup changes. This happens on any site that
has popups?

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The reason you get a notification and a popup is because sites first try to use
the standard method of opening popups, and when Firefox blocks use they resort
to using the other kind (Flash). This bug has no value, in my opinion,
considering we already have bugs open to track flash popups.

Comment 5

[Ross Nicholson]

Thank you, I've changed the state to invalid.

Comment 6

[Ross Nicholson]

Sorry, I'm going to reopen this. I have 2 machines, each has a copy of firefox
(version 1.0.4) installed. One copy of firefox stops the popup at dilbert.com
and the other does not?

How can this be a flash bug? I delete the program directory when upgrading
firefox versions, what's happening???

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Different settings? Flash on one and not the other?

This bug is a duplicate of bug 176079, please mark it as such.

Comment 8

[Ross Nicholson]

How is it a duplicate???

If one copy of firefox stops the popup and the other does not then surely it's
nothing to do with flash? Also no one else has been able to reproduce the popup
at dilbert.com.

I've reinstalled and still no difference. Can someone tell me where in setting's
I might check to try and fix this bug?

Comment 9

[Steve England [:stevee]]

With Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050509
Firefox/1.0.4 and a new profile, after going to http://www.dilbert.com I get
notification of one blocked popup, and one popunder that gets through.

With Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050610
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061008 and a new profile, after going to
http://www.dilbert.com I again get notification of one blocked popup, and one
popunder that gets through.

So IMO the initial premise of the bug (popup blocking regression) is incorrect,
therefore this bug is INVALID.

Comment 10

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Whoopsie. I think the reporter is saying that the popups were blocked with 1.03
and are not with 1.04 -- not sure about that. But regardless, since nothing is
being landed on the 1.0x branch except for security related fixes, this bug
could be resolved as WONTFIX.

However, a bug should perhaps be filed on the superstitial ads getting past the
blocker.

Comment 11

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #6)
> How can this be a flash bug? I delete the program directory when upgrading
> firefox versions, what's happening???
> 
Roos, with the copy you see the popup, try this:
Start Firefox in safe mode (start menu/all programs/mozilla firefox/mozilla
firefox safe mode)

If you still see the popup, can you please try creating a new profile?
Start Firefox with Firefox.exe -p, that will bring up the profile manager,
create a new profile, and directly visit dilbert to see if you get the popup

Comment 12

[Ross Nicholson]

Yes, creating a new profile works fine! No more popups!!! Would you like a copy
of my old profile to see what went wrong? Just tell me what to send...

Sorry about the delay, was away for a few days...

I've installed adblock with filterset.g and have no further problems on the old
profile.