New profile tab recognized as popup in Brave

[Vanerio]

Prerequisites

• I performed a cursory search of the issue tracker to avoid opening a duplicate issue
• The issue is not present after wholly disabling uBlock Origin ("uBO") in the browser
• I checked the documentation to understand that the issue I report is not a normal behavior

I tried to reproduce the issue when...

• uBO is the only extension
• using a new, unmodified browser profile

Description

When a new profile is created in Brave, and "no-popups: * true" is set in "My rules", you can not load any URL in main tab as profile window closes after opennin that especific profile form another profile.

A specific URL where the issue occurs

https://www.google.com/search?q=everywhere

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a "default profile" or use a a profile you alredy have (PROFILE A).
2. Create a second profile (PROFILE B).
3. Go to "PROFILE B/Settings/Get started/On Startup" and set it to "Open the New Tab Page".
4. Go to "PROFILE B/Settings/New Tab Page/New tab page shows" and set it to "Blank page".
5. Install uBlock Origin in PROFILE B and add "no-popups: * true" to "My rules" (make sure to press "Commit" button after that).
6. Close every Brave instance.
7. Open PROFILE A in Brave.
8. Open PROFILE B from PROFILE A.
9. Type an URL (e.g.: google.com) or anything else in the address bar and press Enter. You can also click any Bookmark to reproduce this.
10. PROFILE B window closes as it is detected as a popup.

Note 1: Tested in 2 PC´s, one of them under a clean Brave installation.
Note 2: This used to happen in Chrome too, but I think it does not happen anymore. I am not fully sure though.

Expected behavior

Brave loads the URL/Bookmark in PROFILE B as expected.

Actual behavior

Brave´s PROFILE B window closes.

Configuration

Details

uBlock Origin: 1.43.0
Chromium: 104
filterset (summary): 
  network: 83212
  cosmetic: 50301
  scriptlet: 17912
  html: 0
listset (total-discarded, last updated): 
  default: 
    user-filters: 0-0, never
    easylist: 69597-51, 3d.15h.26m
    easyprivacy: 27390-126, 3d.15h.25m
    plowe-0: 3632-776, 3d.15h.24m
    spa-0: 3897-37, 2h.52m
    spa-1: 4600-176, 3d.15h.29m
    ublock-abuse: 76-0, 3d.15h.22m
    ublock-badware: 4243-92, 3d.15h.20m
    ublock-filters: 32528-173, 3d.15h.19m
    ublock-privacy: 231-3, 3d.15h.18m
    ublock-quick-fixes: 380-0, 2h.51m
    ublock-unbreak: 1829-43, 3d.15h.16m
    urlhaus-1: 4670-0, 2h.50m
filterset (user): [empty]
modifiedUserSettings: [none]
modifiedHiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats: 
  allReadyAfter: 126 ms (selfie)
  maxAssetCacheWait: 76 ms

[gorhill]

What the URL of the popup which get closed in the logger?

[Vanerio]

The URL is the exact same URL that you type. Or in case you type a string, it is the brave search URL.

Edit: Here there is a screenshot of PROFILE B logger.

[gorhill]

I can reproduce. It happens only when we open from the New Tab, it does not happen if we open another tab and navigate from it.

[Vanerio]

Exactly! If you open another tab, you can navigate.
Thank you very much gorhill!

[Vanerio]

Hi! After some years I would like to comment here again. It is only that it is super annoying to open a new profile and when opening a bookmark the whole window closes, when you have deactivated the popups for security reasons. It happens every single time, and for people like me that uses multiple profiles, it is irritating to reopen the profile again, and then opening a second tab...and all this dozens of times a day.
Is it that tough to stop this? :(

Just to remember: this happens when clicking on bookmarks or entering urls after opening a profile with no-popups: * true (the first url opened in the profile is detected as a popup)
Thank you!

[gorhill]

no-popups: google.com false doesn’t work?

[Vanerio]

no-popups: google.com false doesn’t work?

No, it does not :(

[gorhill]

Hopefully fixed in next release. Meanwhile, can you try:

no-popups: newtab false

?

[Vanerio]

Hopefully fixed in next release. Meanwhile, can you try:

no-popups: newtab false

?

Unfortunately, this rule does not work either.

Thank you very much for trying to solve the problem!!

By the way, I am using Brave, I don´t know if 'Exclude chrome' fix will help here.

[gorhill]

Unfortunately, this rule does not work either.

I could reproduce the issue, and this rule worked for me, and essentially the fix is based on this rule working. If it's not working for you than it's a case of "unable to reproduce", which means there won't be further progress.

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Try this:

• Open uBO's logger
• Select "All" in the select widget at the top of the logger
• Reproduce the popup issue on your side
• The logger should have a line showing why it blocked the popup with no-popups switch
• Report information of that line here (screenshot of logger is ok)

[Vanerio]

Tried again, still happens (with both no-popups: google.com false and no-popups: newtab false in My Rules)
Here you have the screenshoot. (it is Spanish)

The steps I followed were:

1. Open another profile that has no-popups: * true.
2. Type cnn.com and press Enter

[gorhill]

Ok my steps when reproducing were "You can also click any Bookmark to reproduce this", I did not try manually entering the URL in the address bar.

[Vanerio]

Ok my steps when reproducing were "You can also click any Bookmark to reproduce this", I did not try manually entering the URL in the address bar.

Yes, when clicking Bookmarks it happens for me too.
But with bookmarks is a little different, as bookmarks are open if the first profile (the one that you open the second profile from) is freshly open with 0 tabs. While typing the url doesn't care about initial open tabs in the first profile, and url never opens. Sorry for the confusion, I just wanted to avoid this 0-tab skip for bookmarks.