144633 - can't reply in msn communities after disabling unrequested windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101190

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alastair]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

When Javascript pop-ups are disabled in Mozilla's options (a very cool feature
btw!) Mozilla seems to still allow pop-up windows to be opened when a user
clicks a link on the page which is intended to open as a Javascript pop-up. This
is great, except it doesn't always work, sometimes not responding at all to the
link no matter how many times its clicked. I find this in particular on msn
communites when attempting to reply to a thread on the message boards.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on the disable javascript pop-ups option
2.Attempt to click "reply" on any thread on an msn community message board.
3.

Actual Results:  Sometimes the link works, sometimes it doesn't.

Expected Results:  The link should always work.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine ---> Preferences:Backend

Alastair: on the occasions the links don't work, do you see any errors
appearing in Tools > Web Development > JavaScript Console? 

(be sure to clear it out of any previous errors first)

Comment 2

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Umm, this has absolutely nothing to do with backend prefs.

I know nothing about msn communities but I believe that the reporter is
referring to the switch for "Open unrequested windows" in
Preferences->Advanced->Scripts & Windows.

This switch toggles the preference "dom.disble_open_during_load" which disallows
the browser from opening a window unless by the direct action of a user. Thus, a
web page can not open a window unless the user clicks on a link/button telling
it to do so. I have seen examples of pages (the Java based AIM client login for
instance) where clicking on a link loads another web page, which in turn does an
"onload" based opening of another window... this is disallowed by the
dom.disable_open_during_load flag... giving the impression of a different
functionality.

I expect that this bug will either be resolved as bad html, or as invalid based
on a misunderstanding of how this preference is supposed to work, but that's not
for me to decide. As I have no idea where this really belongs -->browser general.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'm a member of http://communities.msn.com/DCJD/ and this WFM.  Clicking "Reply"
just opens a new window; it doesn't load a page and then open a new window.  If
the link doesn't work while the page is loading but does work after the page
finishes loading, it's a dup of bug 101190.  Alastair, can you try again in your
community?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

From [e-mail]:

"Yes this seems to be the problem.  If I try to click a pop-up link while a page
is loading, the pop-up does not open. Furthmore all pop-up links in any
successive pages are thereafter disabled in that copy of Navigator until it is
closed and re-opened."

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101190 ***