142712 - (window-choice) [meta] allow user to override script's choice of windows

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Prefs like "open tabs for windows opened by web pages" and "allow web pages to
make links open in new windows", and commands like "open link in new window",
are unreliable because of javascript links.  I think it would be easiest to fix
these together:

bug  55696 "open link in new window" should work for javascript links
bug  64560 "allow pages to make links open in new windows" pref should work for
javascript links
bug 103843 re-add "open tabs for windows opened by web pages" and make it work
for scripts
bug 138860 override location= for event handlers to make it open in a new tab
bug 138198 "open link in new tab" should work for javascript links

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Just a tracking bug unless someone wants to fix all five bugs with a single patch.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 165643 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

I created a meta-testcase for this kind of bug in bug 151142. Interactive tests
and results I get in 1.7 RC2 build 20040601 under XP Pro SP1a can be found in
attachment 149849 [details]

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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