Closed
Bug 188993
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Pref to block unrequested popups sometimes stops requested ones too
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: dan, Assigned: shliang)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030103 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030103 This is sort of an "inverse" of Bug 126224, and maybe related to Bug 159036 as well. The other bugs refer to cases where sites manage to sneak unwanted popups on Mozilla users despite preference settings to disable them. However, there are also cases where a *requested* popup, with important content or navigation for its site, is blocked by Mozilla preferences. I've run into this several times. Most recently, it was from this link: javascript:var meWindow = window.open('/tf/fanmedia?tx=Router&cz=6180417041300&document_id=20030106200819887170329493&accountnumber=' +document.fixForm.accountnumber.value+'&searchaccount='+document.fixForm.accountnumber.value +'&acct_buffer='+document.fixForm.accountnumber.value+',' +'&doctype=tax&setdb=&cmd=display&page_type=print&page=print991099consol', 'print991099consol', 'width=590,height=340,resizable,scrollbars,menubar'); (it won't work here, as it includes relative URLs, and I can't give the URL of the page it's on since it's within a financial site requiring login) This is a requested popup when I click on the link (it's in a normal A HREF tag) (and I won't get into the debate about the desirability of using popups in a site's design, even requested ones; I'm against it, but I still have to use sites sometimes with developers that think otherwise). However, Mozilla still refuses to open the popup, and I have to change this preference to continue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Uncheck "Advanced / Scripts & Plugins / Open unrequested windows" in Edit / Preferences 2. Go to page that has a JavaScript link like the one above 3. Click on the link Actual Results: Nothing Expected Results: Opened the requested window I love the popup blocking feature, but it needs a little fine tuning to try to stop everything that needs stopping, but nothing else!
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Popup blocking now (latest nightlies work with a few glitches) includes full whitelist or blacklist support depending on your preference. There is also an optional visible alert (not shown in all themes) and audible alert for blocked popups. Whitelists can be managed from the alert icon. Look in Preferences->S&P->Popup windows.
Comment 2•21 years ago
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Moving Popup Blocking bugs to XPApps, assigning to shliang
Assignee: mstoltz → shliang
Component: Security: CAPS → XP Apps
Comment 3•20 years ago
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unable to reproduce any problems with javascript popup links. If a popup is requested, it seems to work just fine for me. Tested Mozilla 1.7 beta. We also have a whitelist for sites that do break so this bug is worksforme.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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