309308 - Camino Pop-up blocker conflict with site?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kurt Weinschenker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050918 Camino/1.0a1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050918 Camino/1.0a1+

When browsing my lists on groups.yahoo.com, a pop-up/popunder ad leading to a
secure site launched in the browser window, instead of the link I selected. 
Camino beachballed as a result, requiring a force-quit.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login to groups.yahoo.com  .
2.If an ad for a secure site pops-up/pops under while Camino's adblocking is
enabled, Camino will hang.
3.

Actual Results:  
Camino hung, requiring a force-quit.

Expected Results:  
Camino should have blocked the pop-up/popunder.

Comment 1

[Kurt Weinschenker]

Attachment: Sample from Process Viewer as Camino hung.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Have you been able to reproduce this?  Can we get a testcase?

Comment 3

[Kurt Weinschenker]

I have not seen it since, but that may well be because not many popup/popunder
ads are to secure websites.  I have gone to the website mentioned in the initial
report, but have not seen this happen.  Because this involves a secure website,
I'm somewhat worried.  I'm really not even sure how we'd even set up a testcase.
 I hope this isn't some random thing that just appeared, leaving us scratching
our collective heads.  

Off the top of my head, the nastiest popup/popunder website code I've come
across has been on the site http://www.railpictures.net/  .  Invariably, this
will cause a popunder to launch when I click off the mainpage, and sometimes
when I go to the index page.  I did mention this site as part of bug #253831,
comment #287.

The best I can do at this point has been to report what I've seen, and attach
the sample from Process Viewer.  I realize the reverse engineering route isn't
fun at all, but for now we have to hope the code that handles secure sites isn't
compromised in some way.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Wevah, can you write a testcase for this?  I don't know the sort of code that
produces popups (and I haven't seen one blocked by the popup-blocker, let alone
one that gets through the popup blocker, in quite some time)....

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Kurt: have you seen this again?

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Since we have not heard back from the reporter, closing this bug as WFM. Please
reopen if the problem persists.