1180342 - Keyword-activated bookmarklet with window.open is blocked by popup blocker

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1044351

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[ivan]

Attachment: ff39-popup-blocked.png

In Firefox 38, a keyword-activated bookmarklet with a window.open worked fine (opening the URL in a new tab), but in Firefox 39, it is blocked by the popup blocker.

Repro steps:

1. Create a new bookmark with keyword "ar" and location javascript:(function(){window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+(''+window.location));})();

2. Visit https://news.ycombinator.com/ or any other site that doesn't have CSP enabled and on which you haven't allowed popups

3. Type "ar" into location bar and press Enter

4. Observe popup blocked notification

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think this is a dupe of bug 1044351. It's fixed in Firefox 41.

Comment 2

[ivan]

You are correct, I don't see this problem in 41.0a2 (2015-07-03) or 42.0a1 (2015-07-03).  I should have tested more, sorry.