802045 - Dismissing a pop up blocker doorhanger by tapping outside it will open it again in new tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Build ID: 19.0 (2012-10-15) Nightly Channel
Device: Samsung Galaxy Nexus
OS: Android 4.1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Fennec -> Go to popuptest.com/popuptest1.html
2. Tap outside it - to dismiss it
3. open other site - ex. imdb.com

Expected result:
- no pop up prevention doorhanget as imdb has no pop ups

Actual result: 
- a doorhanger notification with Nighty prevented this site from opening 2 pop-up windows.  This is from last visited page (popuptrest.com)

Nite :
- the doorhanger is not dismissed after a few minutes

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Hm, the popup-blocked doorhanger doesn't have any persistence/timeout set on it:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/chrome/content/browser.js#5120

I wonder if this is a problem with the DOMUpdatePageReport event, or with our doorhanger code on the Java side. It looks like we should be getting rid of the doorhanger notifications on location change:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/DoorHangerPopup.java#112

Comment 2

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