Closed
Bug 338093
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
Flash Pupups are a new threat and damn anoying
Categories
(Firefox :: Security, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: solarburst, Unassigned)
References
(Depends on 1 open bug, )
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Actually this is not rally a bug, but i am VERY unhappy and a bit worried and most of all VERY angry about the fact that there seems to be no way to block unrequested Flash-Popups!!! I wasn't able to find any link to somewhere I could post something, which is not a bug, via the mozilla.org web-interface. anyway, so here my suggestion: -> To modem users these poups are a real torture. (me too althogh I have DSL. It is anoying like hell) -> Flash popups show overlaped within the Window that one wants to read/view!!! -> any click on any button/part of the popup forces new UNREQUESTED links to be opened!!! -> There is way too many users out there who have no clue what happens when they click on something (or not;-): Quote: "My daugther always goes into the internet via google." - do I have to say more. ok: "where did it go??? HELP!" - "Whats wrong?" - "I was [...] then clicked on [any link] and suddenly everything was gone and this thing appeared. did I break something?" - "Take a look at your taskbar" - "What is a "taskbar"???" - "..." I didn't make up these dialogues!!! The 1st one was a neighbour the other was between me and my mum! Users like this are a threat to their PCs and their own privacy and must be protected - without me having to be around all the time. ;-) -> Flash-Popups suck ass and should be illegal or at least BLOCKABLE. -> there is limit of how many ads a humanbeing can bare! -> I'm not familiar with falsh so I don't know if there could be integrated some malevolent code -> fake-(close-)buttons which open unrequested links to avoid popupblockers are very popular -> people might not know if they're viewing a site which contains malevolennt buttons/links/scripts/code PLEASE HELP US TO PROTECT OURSELVES! P.S. and please tell me where to post suggestions in the future. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open any page with at least one flash-popup 2.try to read the text below the flash-"I-fake-I-was-a-real-window" 3.click on the "X"-Button 4.be angry/confused about the new opening window/tab 5.view another part of the same site 6.be angry again 7.reload the site 8.start cursing 9.try to get the info/file/whatever elsewhere without pupups Actual Results: A VERY **** OFF USER Expected Results: just get some info/file/whatever be not anoyed
Comment 2•16 years ago
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http://www.chip.de/ WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081125 Firefox/3.1b2
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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