338093 - Flash Pupups are a new threat and damn anoying

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[solarburst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Actually this is not rally a bug, but i am VERY unhappy and a bit worried and most of all VERY angry about the fact that there seems to be no way to block unrequested Flash-Popups!!! I wasn't able to find any link to somewhere I could post something, which is not a bug, via the mozilla.org web-interface. 
anyway, so here my suggestion:

-> To modem users these poups are a real torture. (me too althogh I have DSL. It is anoying like hell)
-> Flash popups show overlaped within the Window that one wants to read/view!!! 
-> any click on any button/part of the popup forces new UNREQUESTED links to be opened!!!
-> There is way too many users out there who have no clue what happens when they click on something (or not;-): 
Quote: "My daugther always goes into the internet via google." - do I have to say more. ok: "where did it go??? HELP!" - "Whats wrong?" - "I was [...] then clicked on [any link] and suddenly everything was gone and this thing  appeared. did I break something?" - "Take a look at your taskbar" - "What is a "taskbar"???" - "..."
I didn't make up these dialogues!!! The 1st one was a neighbour the other was between me and my mum!
Users like this are a threat to their PCs and their own privacy and must be protected - without me having to be around all the time. ;-)
-> Flash-Popups suck ass and should be illegal or at least BLOCKABLE.
-> there is limit of how many ads a humanbeing can bare!  
-> I'm not familiar with falsh so I don't know if there could be integrated some malevolent code
-> fake-(close-)buttons which open unrequested links to avoid popupblockers are very popular
-> people might not know if they're viewing a site which contains malevolennt buttons/links/scripts/code


PLEASE HELP US TO PROTECT OURSELVES!

P.S. and please tell me where to post suggestions in the future.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open any page with at least one flash-popup
2.try to read the text below the flash-"I-fake-I-was-a-real-window"
3.click on the "X"-Button
4.be angry/confused about the new opening window/tab
5.view another part of the same site
6.be angry again
7.reload the site 
8.start cursing
9.try to get the info/file/whatever elsewhere without pupups
Actual Results:  
A VERY **** OFF USER

Expected Results:  
just get some info/file/whatever
be not anoyed

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 246453?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

http://www.chip.de/ WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081125 Firefox/3.1b2