snap.com thingies can't be closed in firefox

Bug #258820 reported by Robert Persson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

This is either a bug in firefox 3 or in the horrid snap.com thingies. The best way to deal with it of course is to eliminate snap.com nonsense altogether either by installing greasemonkey and then installing the script to get rid of snap.com from userscripts.org (works very nicely), or to block the snap.com domain using something like adblocker.

That said, just in case the problem is with firefox, this is what happens: I go to a page, usually a wordpress blog (try http://angryfrenchguy.com/2008/08/05/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-quebec-language-police/), and this rectangle thing pops up. It is obviously not displaying correctly because there is a bit of the underlying image within it and no advertising (as if I wanted it). There are various things you can click on that look like they ought to give you a way to close the window, such as the big X in the top right corner, but none of them do. The window thingy is quite chunky and makes reading the page next to impossible.

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

For me, when I move the mouse away from the link or image, the box disappears on its own.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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