Watch Firefox's popup blocker be defeated!


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it wasnt a bad attempt at making a "stab at firefox". he didnt really "miss" either. this shows that even the almighty firefox isnt as secure as you would like to believe. so what if i didnt get the popup in IE, that just proves that I know how to use IE. FYI, the MSN toolbar didnt even have a popup to catch because of my settings. I have said it hundreds of times and here it is: IE, like anything else, can be as secure as firefox.

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Firefox 0.8 (havent upgraded on this computer yet)

Didnt get any popups, however I noticed that when I disable the popup blocker, I get two popups that appear for a fraction of a second, then dissapear. This also happens in IE.

Firefox does not block all popups, it allows certain ones that would be classed as requested, such as when a user clicks on a link to show a popup, this site may be exploiting that.

Best post this at the Mozillazine forums where people know more about it, and can alert the developers.

PS: Keira Knightley is hot :devil:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8 (says 0.8, but its 0.9.2)

Confirmed, get a popup. Do not in opera.

Who cares if you can set a rule to block that site.. any other site can do it now.

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It launches the pop up on an onclick event of the links. Which is classed by you browser as an authorised pop up in _most_ cases.

The script add the pop up code to each link on the page, so that you get the pop up (usually) on your first click

for (i=0; i< dl.length; i++) {
  if (dl[i].onclick==null && dl[i].target==""){ dl[i].onclick = gopaypopup; }
	}

The gopaypopup function is then run, launching the pop up window.

Very sneaky method of getting around current pop up blockers. The only way around this, would be to block scripted additions to Anchor tags. Which would be a bad thing for legitimate techniques used by developers.

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mine was showing it with 0.9.1 I forgot I hadn't upgraded my work machine yet i'll do it now and see if it works with 0.9.2

0.9.2 fixes it i don't get any popups with it :) and i'm not using anything extra just a stock Firefox 0.9.2 install :)

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No popups for me, even after reloading the page a few times.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

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On the Mozilla home page it's says Firefox 0.9.1 / 0.9.2. So which version is the latest? :blink: On my about page it says I have 0.9.1 .

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The latset Windows version is 0.9.2 to fix the shell: security problem. On other Operating systems(Mac, Linux) the latest version is 0.9.1.

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The latset Windows version is 0.9.2 to fix the shell: security problem. On other Operating systems(Mac, Linux) the latest version is 0.9.1.

So if it say 0.9.1 on my about page I need to download the new one?

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On the Mozilla home page it's says Firefox 0.9.1 / 0.9.2. So which version is the latest? :blink: On my about page it says I have 0.9.1 .

0.9.2 is 0.9.1 with this extension

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with tab browser extensions,firefox went kind of mental resizing itself many times,eventualy turning it self into a tiny box in the bottom right-hand corner,and then maximised itself with what seemed a pop-up advert(casino one) open in a new tab

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with tab browser extensions,firefox went kind of mental resizing itself many times,eventualy turning it self into a tiny box in the bottom right-hand corner,and then maximised itself with what seemed a pop-up advert(casino one) open in a new tab

:laugh: Make a video of it?

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0.9.2 is 0.9.1 with this extension

:wacko: Sorry to waste your time. I have no clue what I've missed it :blush:

Must have been while I was gone on vacation that I missed it ;)

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