318042 - Links from within flash that specify a target window activate the pop-up blocker

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 315468

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jason Hickner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Any link in a flash movie that specifies a link target activates the popup blocker. Links without a target property (i.e. links that open in the same window) work fine.

example:
getURL("http://www.google.com/","_blank"); <-- doesn't work (mistakenly activates popup blocker)

getURL("http://www.google.com/"); <-- works fine

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make a new flash movie containing only a single button that activates this code:
getURL("http://www.google.com/","_blank");
2. load the flash movie in firefox 1.5 and click the button. the popup blocker will be activated
Actual Results:  
Popup blocker is activated

Expected Results:  
The link should open normally without activating the popup blocker

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

This is intended, see bug 176079.

This is due to the new privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins pref.  More
information about the pref can be found here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries#Privacy..2A

That pref is set to 2 by default because advertisers were abusing this feature.
 You can get around it by setting that pref to 0 or 1.  Or whitelisting the
site in the popup blocker will work too. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315468 ***