Closed Bug 174985 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Pop-up Manager should be on by default after the user is prompted

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
UI Design
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla1.3final

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: shliang)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I think that having "open unrequested windows" and Pop-up Manager is very
confusing. They should be merged. 
For example if I have the "open..." unchecked, what is the point of having the
Pop-up Manager dimmed in the tools menu?
Also the Pop-up Manager is dimmed until you check the "use custom settings" in
the Pop-up windows policy. This I finally understood today. Yiha.
All this have to be very confusing for a new user.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Expected Results:  
Pop-up Manager should be merged with "open unre...". Also it should be on as
default. Difficult to understand why its always dimmed.

First time you encounter a popup an alert should inform you about the pop-up
manager and ask if you want to enable it.
Summary: Pop-up Manager confusion. → Pop-up Manager should be on by default after the user is prompted
Phoenix 0.3 has a better approach on this, though they dont ask the user if you
want it or not.
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
ahh... READING the FAQ helped - please ignore the previous comment - i was a
little upset.
Component: Browser-General → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
*** Bug 175252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
--> default owner
Assignee: asa → hyatt
QA Contact: asa → shrir
This may get better after 1.2final is done.

/be
Assignee: hyatt → dveditz
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
When the pop-ups are disabled, the pop-up manager should deny all site popups
EXCEPT the ones entered into the manager.

Now it is backwards.  

Who wants to deny 1000 sites, just to keep those two you need working?
Whitelists, yes. Thanks for noticing. See bug 174765.
Blocks: popups
Build 20021029088, Modern theme. Mac G3 (old beige type), OS 9.2.2.

The Pop-Up Manager has disappeared altogether from the Tools drop-down menu.
Still not there in Build No. 2002103113
Build No. 2002110708: Pop-Up Manager still missing. What has happened to it?
*** Bug 181126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I guess this bug is outdated now with the new "Popup Windows" in the Preferences.
->shliang
Assignee: dveditz → shliang
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XP Apps: GUI Features
QA Contact: shrir → sairuh
You're right, that sucked. It's better now. The advanced->scripts->open-windows
pref has moved to privacy->popups, so it appears only once in the prefs dialog.
And the Tools->Popups menu is always enabled. This was done sometime in 1.3.
Closing.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.3final
zap.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → UI Design
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