188194 - Add 'block pop-ups' to the menu bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 272171

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[rxsherm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030107 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: N/A

After seeing Apple's Safari, it occurred to me what a great idea it is to add
the "block pop-up" option from the preferences to the menu bar. Why is this
useful? Well, when I go to tvguide.com, for example, I always have to
temporarily disable pop-ups so I can read the show descriptions. It would be
much easier to do this from the menus than by constantly going into the preferences.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Mozilla 1.3a contains a popup manager, which allows you to specify which sites
can have popups, and which don't. And there is an entry in the menus to unblock
a specific site.

Chimera is still based on 1.0.1, and doesn't contain the popup-manager.

Reassigning to Chimera

Comment 2

[S Woodside]

I agree. It should also have a keyboard shortcut.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->sfraser

if we control popups via a whitelist (see bug 155094), then we should not have
"block popups" available.

however, i agree that we should have some popup control available from the menubar.

Comment 4

[Chris Casciano]

Recent builds of mozilla have a status bar icon that appears when a popup is
blocked stating "unblock this sites popups" which brings up the whitelist.

Comment 5

[Jasper]

Perhap the solution wold be to add a context menu item that would sound like
somethiong like this:

* Block popups from this site.
* Unblock popus from this site.

Which would automatically add or remove the provided url to or from the popup
whitelist. 

A toolbar item would also be possible but I think that a contextual menu item
would be much easier and more intuitive.

Comment 6

[Chris Casciano]

*** Bug 198786 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ping.

I like Safari's implementation of this and think it would be useful. Basically,
all we're doing is adding the pref from the Web Features panel as an item in the
app menu. Is this hard to do?

I also suggest command-k as a shortcut for this, but can some users of localized
builds comment on if that would work?

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Better discussion and clearer articulation (plus a target) in the newer bug, so
duping this to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272171 ***