190055 - Ability to disable Javascript "on Exit"

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Klaus Ridder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

It happens that advertising banners have themselves as "on exit", so that there 
is no way to exit the page but killing mozilla. 
Suggested solution 1: One should be able to never allow mozilla to open a 
window "on exit". 
Suggested solution 2: holt ALT while closing the window to tell mozilla not to 
open another window on exit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://204.177.92.193/pt/affdd/index_de3.jhtml?pin=504144
2. close the site
3. it returns.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Suggested solution 1: One should be able to never allow mozilla to open a 
> window "on exit". 

Preferences > Advanced > Scripts & Windows

Uncheck "open unrequested windows".

Comment 2

[Klaus Ridder]

Of course you can tell mozilla not to open any unrequested windows. However,
even if you want mozilla to open unrequested windows, it should be possible to
forbid mozilla not to open windows "on exit" because there is no useful
application for this "on exit" feature, and it's very annoying.

It's just a feature request; make out of it whatever you want.

Regards,
Klaus

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

->JS Engine

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

not JS Engine; ---> Preferences

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Klaus Ridder]

(I reported that bug quite a time ago; when there was no "popup blocker").

As there is a good popup blocker in mozilla now, this problem is solved for
everyone having it activated. However, people who explicitely want to allow
popups  will have problems if they are accidently lead to a dialer-site that
extensively uses "on exit" popups. 

As - in contrast to normal popups - I don't see _any_ useful usage of an "on
exit" popup, this should be an extra option which is disabled by default.

Regards,
Klaus

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)