Closed Bug 86284 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Never let sites disable main menu / icon bar / status bar etc.

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 107949
Future

People

(Reporter: BenB, Assigned: joki)

References

Details

window.open has a flag which allows the site to ask the browser to open a new
window without
- main menu and/or
- icon bar and/or
- urlbar and/or and/or
- personal toolbar and/or
- status bar.

I don't want sites to influence that. The designer might think that it 'looks
better', if a definition or or legal terms or whatever opens without browser UI,
but I disagree. I might want to increase the text size or whatever.

Give me an option so that these flags for window.open are ignored.

Implementation might be similar to bug 86282.
Blocks: 86195
Bug 64560 would achieve the same goal, even better, but will be harder to implement.
Setting milestone to future.
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Let me contribute my observations and opinions. It is OK for me that a window
opens this way. But it should always be possible to make the missing parts
available again. In addition to Ben's list:

1) Always allow to maximize, minimize or resize arbitrarily.
2) Always allow scrollbars

2) is especially important since many pages are made to work exactly under
Windows (the Version the developer uses) with IE (the Version the developer
uses). With other Browsers, including Mozilla;-), the content simply does not
fit the window. Without scrolling there is no way to reach the content.
Maximizing sometimes would help (see 1)), but not always.


The following might be related. If not I would be glad to hear if there is a bug
about this I cannot find or if I should open a new one.

Opening a new windows with JavaScript also can position the window. This
sometimes happens such that not all of the window actually is on the screen. So
I have to move the window by hand, even if there would have been enough space in
the first place. This should not happen.

The same holds for opening windows which do not fit the screen.

pi
> This sometimes happens such that not all of the window actually is on the
> screen. [...]
> The same holds for opening windows which do not fit the screen.

Filed bug 118717.

*** Bug 137355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As far as UI, this should go under the Scripts & Windows pane in
the prefs.  For clarification, is this bug about creating the
ability in the backend to do this, or the UI frontend, or both?

Cc += me

both

> It is OK for me that a window opens this way. But it should always be possible
> to make the missing parts available again.

That's an appraoch, too. File a new bug and reference it here?

> is this bug about creating the
> ability in the backend to do this, or the UI frontend, or both?

Both.
This is just bug 107949, right?  (that one is assigned to the right component,
btw; this one is not)
Following Boris I'll dupe this bug, also see:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107949#c20

If you voted for this bug, don't forget to move those votes.

pi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107949 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v
No longer blocks: 86195
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling
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