Closed Bug 398493 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Pop-up blocking does not work and tied to cookies.

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Annoyance Blocking, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 212163

People

(Reporter: Danieljh75, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Camino 1.5.1 Multi-language

After launch of Camino, default home page--google--opens. I enter appleinsider in URL and page opens. After clicking on a link within appleinsider page, a pop-up appears in a new window but behind the main window. This seemed to occur on appleinsider and also only after clicking on a link within appleinsider. I know it has happened on other sites, but I typically only visit appleinsider. I discovered from (from my inability to leave this alone) that if you clear all of the cookies and then quit and relaunch Camino, it's duplicatable. I have Firefox 2.0.0.7 set to clear cache and cookies upon quit so I manually did this in Camino as well, although, Firefox never has had this problem. Cookies seems to be the trigger regardless of the pop-up block settings. Ironically, leaving the cookies before quitting and then relaunching seemed to prevent the pop-up from coming back; however, I don't want hundreds or even thousands of useless advertising cookies on my machine.

I wish I knew more than how to write command line programs or I'd jump into it myself.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Camino
2. Remove all cookies
3. Clear cahce (may just be optional)
4. Go directly to URL bar & type: ' appleinsiderl.com ' (omitting single quotation marks, of course)
5. The pop-up warning appears. Do what ever you want--ignore or allow--because it won't matter
6. Click on a story link and then check behind main window to see if pop-up appeared.
7. Check list of cookies and you will see that there are over 50 cookies from different places. Is this because the 'only allow cookies from sites I visit' is broken?
8. Clear cookies
9. Quit Camino
10. Repeat.
Actual Results:  
The pop-ups appear without fail. Pop-up appears with or without selecting 'always block' feature.

Expected Results:  
pop-up appears behind main window.

Prevent all cookies from being accepted unless I specifically navigate to that site's home page. Additoinal informtion is that over 50 cookies were accepted just from visiting ' appleinsider.com .'  I have selected the option to 'block all cookies unless I navigate to that page.' Emptying the cookies before each re-launch of Camino seems to allow the pop-up to come back regardless of the 'block' setting. Even though I empty the cache, I don't think it has any bearing on the pop-up behavior. Moreover, of these cookes that appear, most of them explicitly say 'click or advertising.' I have not verified this on other sites that push pop-ups so this may exist beyond just AppleInsider.com .
I launched Camino with a fresh profile and navigated directly to appleinsider.com. I got the popup blocker notification and clicked "never allow". I then clicked a story without getting any popups.

Clicking on any other stories likewise failed to create any popups.
If I make a fresh profile and then set "Accept cookies only from sites I visit" and then follow the same steps, I don't even get a popup blocked notification to give me the option of allowing any popups, nor do I get any popups at all.

I also don't really see any appreciable difference in the number of cookies that are set. Admittedly, I see a lot of what I would consider to be "third-party" cookies in there, but Core's definition of "third-party" cookies doesn't always match with, you know, common sense.

The popup portion of this bug is almost certainly something wrong with your settings; make sure you aren't actually *allowing* popups (in the Pop-Up Exceptions List) from any of the several sites that AppleInsider sets cookies from.
This report is conflating two different behaviors:
- The fact that the site chooses whether or not to attempt to open a popup based on the presence of a cookie is in absolutely no way a Camino bug; it something the site itself is doing.
- The fact that clicking on a link triggers a popup is something that I'm positive is filed in core (and may have been WONTFIXed there); the assumption is generally that a popup based on click interaction are legitimate, and are therefore not blocked.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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