310759 - URL opens a pop-up at start

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[retama1745]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)

This URL has an annoying pop-up which it's very difficult to close.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/edicion/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The problem didn't occur.

Expected Results:  
The software should have blocked the pop-up.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Is this bug present in a mozilla.org release (as opposed to a Debian package)?

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this appears to be flash in a floating iframe, which is basically impossible to
block without blocking legitmate use of CSS.

Unsetting security flag, this isn't a security exploit, its just annoying site
design.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051002
Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005100200

confirmed floating ad (part of page)

reporter , it's best to use AdblockPlus to deal with junk on pages like these.
http://bene.sitesled.com/adblock.htm

Comment 4

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

Resolving WONTFIX as indicated in comments.