Bug 6562 - www.freenews.fr bypasses Safari's popup windows blocking feature
Summary: www.freenews.fr bypasses Safari's popup windows blocking feature
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit Misc. (show other bugs)
Version: 420+
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://www.freenews.fr
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Reported: 2006-01-15 07:41 PST by Laurent Humbert
Modified: 2011-01-13 21:40 PST (History)
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Description Laurent Humbert 2006-01-15 07:41:05 PST 
Hi, Safari's pop-up blocking feature works great here except for *one* site: www.freenews.fr

If you go to this site's home page and click on any story link, a massive pop-under is open...

Normally I wouldn't care but this site really has good stuff on it.


Thanks
Comment 1 Gustaaf Groenendaal (MysteryQuest) 2006-01-15 14:36:34 PST 
No pup-up is shown here. 
I saw also some popups in the last few months, but this seems to be fixed in Mac OS X 10.4.4
So I hope to hear from you if this is still a problem after you upgraded your OS.
Comment 2 Laurent Humbert 2006-01-16 01:30:26 PST 
Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry I forgot to mention the exact system version I'm running: 10.4.4

This also occurs on 10.3.9 with the latest Safari upgrade released a few days ago.

Hum... I thought that maybe they'd restricted the (French) ads to IP addresses in France, but I just asked 
a friend in the UK to check (he's running 10.4.4 too), and he does get the popunder windows.

I don't understand how you can not get them. Note that going to the main page doesn't trigger the ads. 
It's just every time I click on a news story link that a big pop-under window the size of the screen 
opens. So if I click on a dozen links, afterwards, there's a dozen of ads windows to close.

Thanks;

L
Comment 3 Alexey Proskuryakov 2006-01-16 03:07:25 PST 
Behavior confirmed with 10.4.4 (417.9). But I don't know whether this is handled in WebKit or in Safari 
itself.
Comment 4 Robert Blaut 2008-02-13 13:39:28 PST 
I was unable to reproduce the problem in Webkit r30191. Is it already fixed?
Comment 5 Mengjuei Hsieh 2011-01-13 16:42:57 PST 
Works for me on Webkit r75294, Safari 5.0.3 (6533.19.4) and 2.0.4 (419.3). Current website and archive from archive.org around the report were also tested. I think it's safe to close this ticket.
Comment 6 Alexey Proskuryakov 2011-01-13 21:40:00 PST 
Resolving per the above comments. Thanks!