Bug 6562 – www.freenews.fr bypasses Safari's popup windows blocking feature

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: WebKit Misc.

[Laurent Humbert]

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

[Gustaaf Groenendaal (MysteryQuest)]

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.

[Laurent Humbert]

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

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Behavior confirmed with 10.4.4 (417.9). But I don't know whether this is handled in WebKit or in Safari 
itself.

[Robert Blaut]

I was unable to reproduce the problem in Webkit r30191. Is it already fixed?

[Mengjuei Hsieh]

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.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Resolving per the above comments. Thanks!