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Postby akbash » Fri 24 Sep, 2004 7:00 pm

Edward wrote:I tried akbash's suggestion above: Tools/Options/Web Features/Advanced, uncheck "Raise or Lower Windows", and a popup/under still came from Netscape.com when the tab was closed.
You're a tough nut to crack. Well, first things first. I think you're referring to this post of mine
akbash wrote:That [checkbox] prevents a website from hiding a newly opened window behind your window; it makes all popunders be popups.
After re-reading that twice more I'm quite certain I didn't promise that this checkbox would stop popup windows from appearing at all. The only functionality I claim for it is just as it describes itself.

I have explained what I believe your problem to be, from my vantage here on Clairvoyant Island, and what must be done to fix it. You seem to be waiting for a different solution. I know of only the one.
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Postby Fulvio » Fri 24 Sep, 2004 9:43 pm

I don't understand the cause of this, but I know that I started with my Moz1.7.3 bookmarks file imported in FF. The 1.7.3 file had a bookmark, which saved all Tabs, and would open them when double click. That was the source of my Tabs, and of my headaches. I had suspected netscape.com n so I first removed all Tabs, and reintroduced them in groups, saving my settings (current pages) inafter each readdition. Netscape.com was the last one, and I had a newly built set of Tabs, not derived from 1.7.3. And, there has been no problem.
I had the same problem when I tried to create a different set, and using the open in tabs option for the folder in Manage bookmarks. One site in the different selection was a bankrate place, with the same ar.atwola.com address. I close 1.0, and there was the page. But, everything is fine, because I did not save this new set. I don't think it is netscape.com, but something else.
I don't have the website, since I deleted it, along with my 1.7 Tabs bookmark. But, everything is still present in Moz1.7.3.
I never used any extention, and if there is a problem, it is not directly connected with netscape.com. All is well now. Sort of.
I have two separate profiles for 0.9.3 and 1,0, but everything seems synchronized, like the addition of Tabs or bookmarks.
I do not want to carry on this conversation for a Preview, but I am seeing too many thing which are wrong.
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Postby Andrew T. » Sat 25 Sep, 2004 12:25 am

I have found an example where I can get an unrequested pop-up window to reliably appear in Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR in spite of precautions:

1) Open the page http://www.iarchitect.com/ in a browser tab.
2) Close the tab.
3) Two pop-up windows will appear the instant the tab is closed.

akbash wrote:This is the complete list of known, verifiable weaknesses:

[...]

[*]Closing the webpage in some way: this is a regression in Firefox 0.10 PR1 that I claimed had been fixed in recent builds, but another variant has turned up that isn't fixed at time of writing.
This appears to be the weakness related to these occurrences.
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Postby Edward » Sat 25 Sep, 2004 6:34 am

Andrew T. wrote:I have found an example where I can get an unrequested pop-up window to reliably appear in Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR in spite of precautions:

1) Open the page http://www.iarchitect.com/ in a browser tab.
2) Close the tab.
3) Two pop-up windows will appear the instant the tab is closed.


This is precisely what happens at Netscape.com, as soon as the window or tab is closed, the popup/under appears.

I'm wondering... perhaps some web sites have found a way to circumvent popup blockers now. :evil:
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Postby Fulvio » Sat 25 Sep, 2004 1:00 pm

I confirm that iarchitect.com site opens two windows on closing FF1.0rc.
However there have been no problems with home.netscape.com
Any other netscape.com page? At this points I have 16 tabs, which I save in Tools|Options|General|Use Current Pages. I did not save the iarchitect.com.
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Postby Alice » Sat 25 Sep, 2004 6:21 pm

Andrew T. wrote:I have found an example where I can get an unrequested pop-up window to reliably appear in Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR in spite of precautions:

1) Open the page http://www.iarchitect.com/ in a browser tab.
2) Close the tab.
3) Two pop-up windows will appear the instant the tab is closed.

Same here. The bug report contains more examples:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259117
Popup blocker for onunload does not work when closing a window/tab.

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The popup blocker for onunload events works when leaving a page (by using e.g.
the back button), but not when closing a tab. I've seen the problem on several
sites now, including the "Come & Go Test" at http://www.popuptest.com/

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.popuptest.com/
2. Open the link "Come & Go Test" in a new tab <snip>.
3. Go to the new tab (if needed) and close it.

Actual Results:
A popup window is opened.


------- Additional Comment #7 From Kipp Howard 2004-09-13 20:54 PDT [reply] -------

Created an attachment (id=158830)
Testcase (open in a tab and then close tab)

This is the smallest example that exhibits the problem on:
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Postby akbash » Sun 26 Sep, 2004 12:50 pm

akbash wrote:the complete list of known, verifiable weaknesses:
  • ...
  • Plugins like Flash and Java: these are allowed by default to open new windows, but there's a pref for disabling even that.
I just discovered that not all Flash popups are blocked, so I have to recant that bit.

(http://www.iarchitect.com/)
Alice wrote:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259117
Popup blocker for onunload does not work when closing a window/tab.
Not to forget also bug 260385, the beforeunload event.
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