307619 - Unwanted popups can't be blocked if the popup catches right mouse clicks in JavaScript

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Trevor Turton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

Advertisers have got wise to Mozilla'a ability to block unwanted popups by
allowing the user to right-click on the popup and instruct Mozilla to block
popups from that origin.  They incldue JavaScript code to catch and discard or
filter right mouse clicks.  Solution: put a copy of at least this one action
(block popups from this site) (and maybe View page source and View page info)
into the systems menu - the icon in the top left corner of the window, left of
the windows title.  And don't allow JavaScript to alter the systems menu, nor to
entirely suppress the title bar with its systems menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse the web for an hour each day
2. Notice the unwanted popups crusting your screen
3. Right-click on a popup to suppress further popups from that site
4. Notice the absence of a menu option to do this

Actual Results:  
Right mouse popup menu either suppressed completely, or a customised context
menu appers lacking the option to block popups from that site.

Expected Results:  
The option to block popups should always be present if the user right-clicks in
a popup window.  If the right click context menu can be hijacked then this
option (at least) should be present in the systems menu as well.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

1. Please upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.11 for security reasons.
2. Check your settings:
 [ ] Disable or replace context menus 
 under Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Scripts & Pl.: Allow Scripts to: ...

That means, you will always get your own context menu.

And I can only whitelisting popups (allow popups for this site), the
blacklisting as you describe was a long time ago removed. Are you sure that you
mean what you wrote?

Comment 2

[rabbitambulance]

I know I'm getting more and more unwanted popups slipping through. I don't know
what the reporter means with his rightclicking shenanigans, but I know this:
The popups are back, and they're annoying as ever.


Example: centraltracker.org

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(2.5 years later)

No reply from reporter.

MozillaAS v1.7.x is not supported anymore.

(Would have been "Incomplete", now is) R.Invalid.