367210 - Persistent pop-up ad that disabled FireFox, www.drivecleaner.com

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Kenney]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

go to http://www.50states.com/news/
then go to http://www.signonsandiego.com/
then go to http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/index.html

and a pop up occurs requesting that you sign up for drivecleaner.

Need to quit FireFox in order to proceed.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.50states.com/news/
2.http://www.signonsandiego.com/
3.http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/index.html
Actual Results:  
Pop up keeps popping up
Need gto quit FireFox to move on.

Expected Results:  
no pop up

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070116 Minefield/3.0a2pre

Yeah, the site shows a really annoying behaviour. I think this is because you allow sites to move and resize existing windows. When I uncheck this option (in Windows this is Tools > Options > Content > Enable JavaScript > Advanced) I don't see it anymore.

Comment 3

[paul]

www.paulwhite.org exhibits the same behavior.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.