162849 - Pop up window doesn't open even with the popup option enable

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Moiz Dohadwala]

Mozilla build 2002081504, Win2k, SP2

I had the Open unrequested windows option unchecked ( disabled popups )
Then I went to the url:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/020815/161/21i9m.html and
clicked on the slide show link. Nothing happened.
Opened the javascript console and saw that there were exceptions about
permission to call window.open being denied.
I checked the Open unrequested windows option and tried again. Nothing would
happen. Then I restarted mozilla. Went to the same url and tried again. Nothing.
I closed mozilla and that's when it crashed.

Reproducible: Always:

Steps to reproduce:
1. Check the "Open unrequested windows" option ( enable pop-ups )
2. Go to the above url.
3. Click on the slideshow link.
4. No popup window shows up.
5. The following exception shows up in the javascript console:
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Window.open

Actual results:
No popup window shows up

Expected results:
A slide show window should popup

Additional information:
1. When i closed the mozilla window. It crashed. TB id: TB9383541G
2. I couldn't use bugzilla's helper page to create this bug. When I click on
"Open Bugzilla Entry form" button, nothing happens. When I check the javascript
console, I see the same javascript exception: 
"Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Window.open"

Comment 1

[Moiz Dohadwala]

Attachment: snapshot showing the scripts preferences

Comment 2

[Olav Vitters]

Open up your prefs.js file when Mozilla isn't running and delete the line that says:

user_pref("capability.policy.Window.open", "noAccess");

Does that fix it?


-> Browser-General

Comment 3

[Olav Vitters]

blah

Comment 4

[Frederic Bezies]

Pop-up is opening.

WFM - trunk build 20020801504 - WinXP

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020815

Maybe there was a javascript coding error on the page.

Comment 6

[Michael Lefevre]

WFM with 2002091608/trunk/win2k.

reporter (Moiz): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla (for
example, 1.2alpha)? if so, please comment again with details. if not, please
resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 7

[Moiz Dohadwala]

Works now (2002092308). Changing the prefs.js did it.

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

thanks Moiz.

verified.