944013 - HTTP POST Variables Lost When Showing Popup After Blocked

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kyle]

Attachment: post-test.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131112160018

Steps to reproduce:

The attached HTML document uses the onload event to immediately post a form containing a hidden form field into a new browser window via the target attribute.

1. Open Firefox
2. Tap 'Alt' to show the menu bar.
3. Choose File >> Open File, and select the HTML file attached to this bug.
4. When the popup blocker appears, choose Options >> Show.



Actual results:

The popup blocker correctly prevents the popup from appearing.  On choosing to 'Show' the popup, all POST data is lost, and Firefox simply opens the URL from the action attribute of the form with NO parameters.


Expected results:

I'm expecting that the form field should be posted when choosing the option to 'Show' the popup.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The "Options > Show" thing is done without any involvement from core code...

Comment 2

[Ioana (away)]

Reproducible on Firefox 25.0.1, 26.0b8 and 28.0a1.