Comments on: 100,000 popups and counting

By: vanhoucke

vanhoucke — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:17:29 +0000

test popups here:
http://www.popuptest.com/

firefox is good

By: Izkata

Izkata — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:26:20 +0000

It appears to have been fixed now. Not a single attempt at a popup.

By: pie

pie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:19:40 +0000

I went there but nothing popped up I’m on firefox and my google toolbar didn’t say anything.

By: Chelu

Chelu — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:05:14 +0000

Looks like the page has been fixed. No pop-ups.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:18:20 +0000

…I went there. Not a single popup. >__>

By: LOL

LOL — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:56:52 +0000

Did anyone notice that on the top of the page it says unit 404? XD I just found that kinda funny.

By: Jabulon

Jabulon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:25:39 +0000

IE will only open the popup.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:38:25 +0000

Let’s hear it for Firefox !

Must send a link to my friends who continue to use IE. Not the offending site (I wouldn’t do that) but this site!

By: k00pa

k00pa — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:30:23 +0000

OMG Think what will happen if somebody goes to that site with poor ie?

By: matelot

matelot — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:05:53 +0000

so what’s the URL ?

By: tickleme

tickleme — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:57:47 +0000

Pop ups are stopped unless you have mcaffee security center. This rewrites your user.js file. When you remark out the mcaffee entry in user.js, all is well until Mcaffee rewrites the user.js.

By: Chris Vincent

Chris Vincent — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:02:13 +0000

Damn… those number of popups would have knocked out your computer for sure…

By: mixand

mixand — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:57:08 +0000

if you unblock it, it just shows one image but if you show it in internet explorer it shows all of them, firefox knows not to open 100k pop ups :)

By: Titannick

Titannick — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:05:22 +0000

That’s nice, but really untrue.
consider this piece of pseudo-code.

//open a popup if its not already open
if(!somewariable)
somevariable = new Popup();

If this code is in the mouse handler, or even a timer, it will generate insane amounts of ‘popups’ under firefox.

Really it hasnt blocked that many popups.
It has _blocked that many attempts at_ a popup.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:37:57 +0000

Well, this story is a little misleading, actually.

It doesn’t actually pop up that many popups in any browser. It only needs to load once. But something about the way it was written makes it keep trying until it succeeds, and since Firefox’s popup blocker takes care of it, it just sits there and tries again and again.

By: william austin

william austin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:48:40 +0000

yeah i was stumling around with stumble upon my favorite thing in the world when i came across that same page and i’m running linux so i indeed did not experience the events that could of transpired but i just want to say whoever the stumbler that marked that page “i like it ” your a fucking idiot!

By: LoLo

LoLo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:19:37 +0000

just a : while(popup_not_shown){ do_pop(); } …

By: Money Moose

Money Moose — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:50:07 +0000

Reminds me of 300.

One browser…

Thousands of ads…

THIS. IS. FIREFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOX!

By: What is Firefox?

What is Firefox? — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:58:02 +0000

I’ve seen this on a few sites. I think that it is a Javascript function that is recognizing that the popup did not work, and is trying again. Probably a while loop. I doubt that had Firefox allowed popups that 100,000 windows would have opened.

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:16:23 +0000

Mike, from the dugg image: http://www.aparthotelmontreal.com/virtualtourphotos.html#404

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:04:29 +0000

What site was this? I wanna try!