873790 - consistent warning bar about Firefox preventing redirection to another window and an ALLOW button; I cannot find anything in Options to disable this annoying warning. Is it fixable?

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

I have checked my Option cfg; I have read your known problems and Fixed Issues. I hope this is just a brain **** and I can just modify some setting to prevent it. 


Actual results:

Every time I open a tab or click to another URL, this warning bar appears under the toolbar saying that Firefox prevented redirection to another site; there is an Allow button and an X. I always smack the X white muttering profanities. The consistent appearance does seem to impact performance. I have a 64-bit quad core processor with 6GB memory and running a stable version of HP Windows 7.


Expected results:

Smacking the X does make the bar go away until the next time I open a tab or go to another url; sometimes there is actually a whole new tab opened with the bar. Now I have loaded a bunch of coupon and money-saving apps, and I wonder if one of those sneaky little POS might be the culprit. Whaddya think?

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

1. Are you clicking with the left button?
2. When you expect no tab, have you looked at the redirect's target address (should probably appear in the warning bar)?
3. What are those apps?  Do they add toolbars?  Maybe they are intended to make you view ads?

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Feel free to reopen if you can repro in a clean Profile and provide Answers to Comment 1.