8558 - Multiple pop-up windows created.. shouldn't be.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeremy Browne (no email)]

I looked for a bug like this and didn't find one, but if it's a dupe, mark it
so. Also, this may not belong in Javascript Engine. I don't know.

On said webpage, (or almost any other on geocities), the following javascript
code will create as many pop-up's as the number of pages accessed, rather than
following Nav/Communicator/IE's behavior.   (This is nightly build 1999061808)

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
<!--
window.open('/toto?s=76000363', '_geo_toto', 'width=515,height=125');
// -->
</SCRIPT>

This especially becomes a problem on pages with frames, like in my example.
Geocities automatically adds that code to every page uploaded to its server.
Therefore the frameset page, as well as each of its children, have their own
popup window. A new pop-up is created each time you move to a different page as
well. This may or may not apply to other free hosting sites that use pop-up
windows to hold ads. (Testing reveals that it does apply to Tripod).

Comment 1

[Jeremy Browne (no email)]

This bug no longer shows in Windows build 1999062308, so I'll mark it fixed. Something else crashes the url I listed though.

Comment 2

[gerardok]

j-browne, please open a new bug if the above URL is still crashing. Re-tested
the described failure on 1999-08-27-08 build. Status changed to Verified.