336329 - popup blocker fails to block popup ad from http://www.pressian.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jung-woo Sohn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

popup blocker fails to block the popup ad from http://www.pressian.com.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.pressian.com
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Actual Results:  
popup ad displays

Expected Results:  
block the popup window

Comment 1

[Patrick]

pop-up blocked for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060502 Minefield/3.0a1

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Can you reproduce this in Firefox's safe-mode or with a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 3

[Steve]

I have observed that one trick used by developers is to "mung" or hide the script command to open a popup window. Here is an example from pageresource.com:

document.write('<scr'+'ipt language=javascript src="http://a.tribalfusion.com/j.ad?site=PageResourcecom&adSpace=HTML&size=468x60&type=horiz&requestID='+((new Date()).getTime() % 2147483648) + Math.random()+'"></scr'+'ipt>');

See how they break up the word "script" to confuse popup blockers that now don't realise they're looking at a javascript. The popup blocker should check for anything that says "document.write" and has a src url following it perhaps. Any other suggestions on how we can overcome this?

Comment 4

[Dan Mellem]

Works for me with Firefox 1.5.0.4. (Also works in SeaMonkey 20060625). Perhaps the site is permitted in allowed sites?


Steve - I think the popup blocker is tied into the code that actually opens the window instead of pre-parsing the HTML.