131155 - user_pref("browser.target_new_blocked", true); does not work anymore

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)

Description

[Juha Nieminen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

  Setting
user_pref("browser.target_new_blocked", true);
in the prefs.js does not work anymore in 0.9.9, even though it worked
fine in 0.9.8.
  I *REALLY* hope this is just a bug, as I found this setting
extremely useful.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Well, should be quite obvious: Just add the setting to prefs.js
2. And try with a page with a link with target=whatever
3.

Actual Results:  The setting seems to be ignored: Links with target=whatever tag
open in a new window.

Expected Results:  It should work as 0.9.8: That is, open it in the same window.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

-> Security: CAPS?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The pref got renamed to "browser.block.target_new_window", so you need to change
it in your prefs.js (and it now has UI in the Scripts & Windows panel in
preferences, so you can just use that).

Comment 3

[Jonas Jørgensen]

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