Closed Bug 143678 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Active browser window disappears

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: j.buccino, Assigned: doronr)

References

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 BuildID: rc2 When I do not allow webpages to open new windows (Advanced - Scripts and Windows) which the above URL tries to do, the active browser window disappears when loading the above URL. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set preferences to not allow webpages to open new windows 2. Access URL 3. Actual Results: Active browser window disappears, have to open new one to continue Expected Results: Browser window shoes typical content, supplementary window does not appear.
The website has javascript (in http://www.celestron.com/code/general.js) which looks like this: MyWin = window.open(url,wname,[snip details]); if (MyWin == null) window.close(); So, if it can't open a popup, it shuts the window. Lovely. Either: a) it's a crude way of making you accept the popup, or b) they goofed. If it's (a), then we're unlikely to make them fix it, but if it's (b), we stand a chance. ->Tech evangelism Contact details: http://www.celestron.com/contact.htm or webmaster@celestron.com
Assignee: sgehani → doron
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: XP Apps → US General
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: paw → zach
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Version: other → unspecified
Reporter has contacted them, their response as follows: -------------start Dear Mr. Buccino: I am very sorry for the inconvenience. I am glad that you brought this to our attention. We will modify the script to remove the part of the code that kills the window if null. In addition, we will be moving away from using popup windows in the future. I agree with you that they are annoying! -------------end To cap it all, they've ALREADY changed the page. Looks like option (b) was the case, and Ten out of Ten for quick turnaround on their part...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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