174507 - Popup blocking too restrictive

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

On the Compaq page is a select tag to choose previous models. On the event
OnChange it calls 'javascript:go()' and 'go' in turn opens the new page.

With popup blocking on the new page is blocked, disabling blocking opens the page. 

This seems a bit too restrictive in the particular circumstances.

Maybe this and http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155351 should be
bundled as they are not really bugs, but rather undesired behaviour?

(Build ID: 2002101404)

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** Bug 177320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[S Woodside]

I'm not sure what chimera's policy is exactly, whether it only allows window
popup code that's in the onclick handler, and doesn't allow function calls from
there to open popups. Is this bug a problem with the rule, or that the rule is
OK but it's not working right in a specific case?

Comment 3

[S Woodside]

I can't figure out how to reproduce this. Jorgen, please provide instructions.

Comment 4

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

If I go through the following steps I experience the problem:
* check popup blocking in preferences
* go for example http://www.info.apple.com/
* select for example 'iPod' in the 'select your product' drop down menu
nothing happens

Now try to:
* uncheck popup blocking in preferences
* select from the menu again. For example 'iPod' again.
Now the action on the drop down menu actually selects something different.


The menu has the following javascript attached:
   ONCHANGE="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_top')";

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

The compaq page no longer has the select tag that is supposed to show the
problem. Comment 4 is bug 155351. Need more info on the Compaq problem.

Comment 6

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

Found a version on the http://www.archive.org/ site.

With Build ID: 2003010104 I am unable to reproduce. Maybe this has been solved
since reporting?

Comment 7

[Brian Lee]

Perhaps a UI or box to enter what sites you what popups blocked on or even the
ability to block popups that don't link to/come from the site you are currently
on. Kind of like the image blocking

Comment 8

[Chris Casciano]

marking WFM based on comment 6.