315936 - pinksheets.com - Pop-Up blocker does not block pop-up consisting of Flash ad

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253831

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Edward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

When http://www.pinksheets.com/ loads in, a pop-up consisting of a Flash ad appears and the pop-up blocker is not blocking it from appearing.  The Page Title of the window displays "http://a.tribalfusion.com - Name_of_Ad-Here - Mozilla"

Because the new window is entirely a Flash ad, I cannot ascertain where it is exactly coming from, if not from server "a.tribalfusion.com", right-clicking the window brings up a Flash menu instead.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.pinksheets.com/
2. Wait for page to load.
3. Pop-up with a page title of http://a.tribalfusion.com appaears and is not blocked by the pop-up blocker.

Actual Results:  
Pop-up ad appears.

Expected Results:  
Pop-up ad should have been blocked.

This cccurs with both the Windows and Linux versions of Mozilla 1.7.12 and SeaMonkey nightlies both 1.1a and 1.5a.

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

I am pretty sure this is a dup of another bug.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Some a.tribalfusion.com popups are mentioned in Firefox bug 253831, duplicate?

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

Edward, you may want to filter tribalfusion.com popups. You may want to follow instructions at this page: 
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock.html
which lists a.tribalfusion.com as an ad popup creator.

You may also want to check that your about:config's
dom.popup_allowed_events
status is set to default

I see ten (10!) <iframe src="http://a.tribalfusion.com/f.ad? ...> in that pinksheets.com page!
Each iframe load a remote tribalfusion.com document along with script functions which may be using flash to work around our popup blocker. I personally have disabled, removed Flash plugin from my system, partly because of popups driven by Flash.

I'm resolving this bug as a DUPLICATE of bug 253831

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253831 ***

Comment 4

[Gérard Talbot]

I may have resolved this bug incorrectly. Several bugfiles (bug 282670, bug 287984 and bug 176079 among others) suggest that Firefox and Seamonkey already block unrequested Flash-initiated/generated popups.

If that still happens with pinksheets.com, then try this, as suggested from 
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=240548

1- type about:config in the location bar; 
2- right-click anywhere in the page and choose New>Integer; 
3- type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins and press Ok; 
4- type 2 and press Ok
[You can choose anything between 0 and 2;
0: open allowed
1: the opened windows are treated as popups, but they're allowed to open (we limit the number of these types of popups)
2: the window is a popup, block it]

Comment 5

[Edward]

In response to Comments 3 and 4:

dom.popup_allowed_events was already set to "default"

privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins was already in about:config and was set to "2"