Closed Bug 190758 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Popup window is not blocked when popup blocker is active

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176079

People

(Reporter: spandanch, Assigned: asa)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030121 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030121 The popup window for this page loads about a second after the page is fully loaded, not simultaneously with the page. I suspect that this might have something to do with this occurance. After the page loads, the popup window jumps right out every time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.zwan.com/zwanJump1.html 2. Let the entire page load fully. 3. Wait a second. Actual Results: A popup appears, even though popup blocker is on. Expected Results: Blocked the popup window.
Looks like that window is opened by the Flash plugin, not by Mozilla (no flash == no window).
http://www.betanews.com also have popups sometimes though you have popup blocking enabled.
With respect to Comment 1, I can see the point, but still it would be nice to have a way to control all unrequested popups, flash or html.
We can't control what the flash plugin does. It is an independent program running on your computer that is not under Mozilla's control in any way. If it wanted to, it could erase your hard drive, and we wouldn't even know it happened till we tried to read something off said hard drive.
Not to mention the fact that this is WFM with 2003012504 / XP. I load the site and see the telltale status bar "!" indicating a blocked pop-up. Nor do I see a pop-up. (Which would seem to contradict the comments that this is Flash related...)
I get the popup although popups are disabled. Win98. Build ID 2003012508. If I completely disable javascript for navigator then I get no popup. The javascript seems to be getting called from the flash plugin (?).
>>We can't control what the flash plugin does. It is an independent program running on your computer that is not under Mozilla's control in any way. Point taken. But many independent popup suppressors, such as Free Surfer (http://www.emsproject.com/FS/Support.htm) for IE is able to block the same popup. >>I load the site and see the telltale status bar "!" indicating a blocked pop-up. Really? wow. I couldn't even install the 20030125 build, it's giving me some kind of a corrupt file error at installation.
>>I completely disable javascript for navigator then I get no popup. Yep, thanks for pointing that out. Seems to be javascript rather than flash.
Here's something I found out at the Mozilla Windows user Newsgroup: If one puts user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 3000); this line in their user.js or prefs.js file, it stops the popup for appearing. Basically it makes a mandatory response time of at most 3 seconds. My test was successful, i.e. the popup was blocked once I added this code and restarted Mozilla. So, in the whole, it looks like it's a time-delayed popup generated by javascript. I know next to nothing about coding, but perhaps the popup suppressor could be modified to include that line.
Mozilla 1.4a, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401, Windows XP Professional, build 2600.xpsp1.020828-1920 Confirmed. Should this be duped against bug 193872, as that one has a test case? Namely, window.open is not getting suppressed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176079 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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