User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504 Camino/0.8+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504 Camino/0.8+ When opening my morning dose of comic strips, I was startled to see two popups appear on my system. Further investigation narrowed it down to ucomics.com, and I think I've obtained a copy of the offending JavaScript. "Block Popups" is enabled, and the only exception is within the .monash.edu.au domain; this popup definitely does *not* come from Monash Uni. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable popup blocking. 2. Access any webpage within the ucomics.com domain (Foxtrot, Non Sequitur, etc.) Actual Results: A popup appeared on screen. Expected Results: The popup should have been blocked. Attachments coming with the offending JavaScript; I may or may not have drilled down sufficiently far to find it. Hopefully ...

This source is referenced from the ucomics webpage via two levels of indirection (a JavaScript src file is referenced from the webpage; that file references the attached file). There may be further indirection within the above source; I am not sufficiently familiar with JavaScript to know where the exact offending code lies. If I can help further, please don't hesitate to ask.

does this also happen in firefox?

Good question. I honestly don't know, as I don't have Firefox installed on this host. It looks like the offending ads aren't being run on ucomics at the moment, so I can't verify one way or the other. If I had to stake money one way or the other, I'd say "yes" -- but as I said, I can't verify or refute that statement.

Yep, it gets Fx, too, if you don't have Adblock. It's the flash popup (line 32 in the attachment), so dupe of bug 176079. Using CamiFlash or Camino Extra Prefs's adblocking or a userContent.css stylesheet would probably prevent it in Camino (the latter did for me). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176079 ***