Bug 226814

Summary:	Article view automatically proceeds to a popup-like page
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Christoph Lange <langec>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Christoph Lange 2010-02-14 14:53:52 UTC

Version:           1.6.0 (using 4.4.00 (KDE 4.4.0), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-thinkpad

When reading articles from this feed (http://arstechnica.com/features.rssx), the article view (i.e. the KHTML tab displaying the article) frequently jumps to a page that doesn't display anything, or maybe a whole page Flash applet, I have Flash disabled.  The page is titled “Dart Frame”.  When I navigate back to the article page, Akregator instantly jumps back to the “Dart Frame” in most cases.  That makes it impossible to read an article.  When I open the same article in a browser (e.g. the article http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/01/mac-mini-with-snow-leopard-server-review.ars/), it usually works.

Note:
* I have not _really_ intensively tested this with Konqueror, as I mostly use Firefox for browsing.  But with Firefox I have never had trouble so far.
* Often the problem does not occur on the first page of an article, but on any subsequent one.
* In the source of the page there is some JavaScript containing the string “dart”, that looks like the culprit.

Comment 1 Christoph Lange 2010-02-14 15:03:08 UTC

The same problem just occurred to me in Konqueror.  So maybe this bug should be moved to Konqueror or KHTML.

From http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/01/mac-mini-with-snow-leopard-server-review.ars/2 I was redirected to http://arstechnica.com/public/shared/scripts/ad-loader-frame.html?req=http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/ars.dart/itbiz_smb;abr=!webtv;mtfIFPath=/mt-static/plugins/ArsTheme/ad-campaigns/doubleclick/;tile=3;sz=300x250;kw=bottom;kw=mac-mini-with-snow-leopard-server-review;kw=01;kw=2010;kw=reviews;kw=apple;ord=95696117605872510

Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2010-02-22 00:23:28 UTC

Looks related to their ads banner. Did you turn the adblocker on ?

Comment 3 Christoph Lange 2010-02-22 00:26:12 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Looks related to their ads banner. Did you turn the adblocker on ?
No, I didn't.  How would I have to configure it in order to avoid that problem?

Comment 4 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 19:42:46 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of akregator (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 5 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:01:47 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.