Open Bug 204328 Opened 21 years ago Updated 12 years ago

Popup manager blocks local html files from displaying popup window

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(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

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

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(Not tracked)

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(Reporter: mvolikas, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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Source code to reproduce popup problem
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Jpg displaying what the popup should look like
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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030501
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030501

The attached code (worked using Mozilla 1.41a 20030401) would display a popup
when the file was loaded from the local hard disk.  I configured the Popup
Windows Preferences to play a sound when the popup was blocked and determined
this was the case.

Tried disabling the popup manager and the popup was still blocked.

How do I configure the popup manager so HTML files loaded from my hard disk will
display the popup?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the attached HTML code to your PC's disk drive
2. Click on File --> Open File
3. Select the file Center.HTML

Actual Results:  
The popup was blocked even though I disabled the option.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display the popup when the HTML file is loaded from the local
disk drive.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

function launchCenter(url, name, height, width) {
  var str =
"toolbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=no,location=no,scrollbars=yes,height=" + height
+ ",innerHeight=" + height;

	var win = window.open(url, name);
	win.close();

  str += ",width=" + width + ",innerWidth=" + width;
  if (window.screen) {
    var ah = screen.availHeight - 30;
    var aw = screen.availWidth - 10;

    var xc = (aw - width) / 2;
    var yc = (ah - height) / 2;

    str += ",left=" + xc + ",screenX=" + xc;
    str += ",top=" + yc + ",screenY=" + yc;
  }
  return window.open(url, name, str);
}

<!-- var win = launchCenter('', 'center', 220, 440); -->

var win = launchCenter('', 'center', 400, 500);

// -->
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>
This has nothing to do with the preferences dialog.
Assignee: ben → mstoltz
Component: Preferences → Security: General
QA Contact: sairuh → carosendahl
I cannot reproduce the problem - I open up local files without popup blocking
and popups appear.

Please attach the html in the form of an attachment.

I will attach a jpg file showing what is displayed when the file is opened with
Internet Explorer.  This code use to work correctly with Mozilla version 1.4a
20030401.
The attached jpg shows the popup displayed correctly using IE; this code use to
work correctly with Mozilla version 1.4a 20030401.
>	var win = window.open(url, name);
>	win.close();

For me, the window opens, and gets closed right away. And that is expected. Does
removing that win.close() fix it?

I am using build 20030502 and it does work - the popup appears whether I use the
file or http protocol when popup blocking is disabled.

Try creating a new profile and see if this works - at least you can isolate
whether it is profile specific or at the app level.
yes - why are you opening the window, closing it, and then returning with a
window.open call?  Try removing this as well:

	var win = window.open(url, name);
	win.close();

I do not believe this is a bug.

> <!-- var win = launchCenter('', 'center', 220, 440); -->

That is not really a comment. At least not for javascript.. Try to remove that also.

Charles & Michiel, this is a very simple example of the problem I am
experiencing.  The intent of the script is to close the popup window if it was
previously opened and redisplay the popup.  I developed 924 HTML pages were this
code use to work with Mozilla 1.4a.  I hate IE but this code works perfectly
with IE.
Did you try the new profile?  As I said, on my win2k system, it works in a new
profile without problem.
The code I am using came from
http://www.webreference.com/js/tutorial1/utilize.html; "Opening a Centered
Window".  Click on the button in the Opening a Centered Window section (towards
the bottom of the page) and the popup will be displayed.  Now save this page to
your local disk drive and try the same thing; the popup is displayed momentarily
and it is closed.  As far as I am concerned this is a bug.

No; I did not try the new profile.
I just created a new profile and the popup window was NOT displayed when I
loaded the file from from my local disk drive.
Are you running a machine with memory or cpu constraints?  You might be missing
an event?  What happens when you alter the code (remove the comment and the
first window.open/close block) to only contain the window.open call on return?
We are making a mountain out of this.  Look at my comment #11.  Why is the popup
blocked when the page is loaded from the local disk drive?
You say that even with a new profile, which has popup blocking disabled, you
still see the icon in the statusbar that tells you that the popup is blocked?
That would be strange, and needs investigation.

Did you try to remove those three lines in the script? Without them, i see the
popup. With them, i see a new window being opened, and closed real fast after that.
If removing those lines works, this is not a popup blocking issue, but some
other javascript/dom thing.
I deleted the lines as suggested in comment #5 and the popup window was
displayed when I disabled the Popup Manager.  The code work the same if I
deleted the line of code as suggested in comment #8 or leaving it in.

I then blocked the popup manager and redisplayed the page.  I clicked on the
icon in the statusbar that tells you that the popup is blocked and could NOT
configure it to allow the page loaded from the local drive to display the popup
window.

Once again, this is a bug in the current release of Mozilla.  This code worked
with Mozilla 1.4a.  This code works with Internet Explorer version 6.0.
So that means that the bug is: "No way to add local files to the list of sites
allowed to show popups"?
The reasen that is os, it that there is no host associated with the local
drives, and the list is host based. That means we need some special entry or
something.
danm, is this stuff yours?
Assignee: mstoltz → danm
Component: Security: General → Security: CAPS
These have been going to XPApps.
Assignee: danm → jaggernaut
Component: Security: CAPS → XP Apps
QA Contact: carosendahl → paw
What is the status with this bug?

Firebird (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a)
Gecko/20030712 Mozilla Firebird/0.6) has the same problem with the JavaScript. 
Comment #17 would provide the needed solution to get this problem resolved.
-> mvl
Assignee: jag → mvl
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
According to bug 177106, adding localhost doesn't work, adding local IP works.
Dup?
Just ran into this myself.
I think this is a reasonably annoying problem since it affects devs trying to
test design on multiple browsers.
Is there some way to override pop-up blocking on a protocol basis?  Just for
file:// ?
*** Bug 241472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 240283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In addition to comment 24:
Popup blocker should be configurable to behave differently for file:// and
__chrome://__

Currently it blocks also all windows opened from a chrome code, which is wrong
IMO. The popup blocker is intended for protecting user from web-sites, not from
chrome extensions.
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
*** Bug 255744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
to comment 27 - it's bug 253487
Blocks: popups
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Assignee: mvl → jag
QA Contact: pawyskoczka
This appears to be fixed in Firefox 1.0.4+
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

We discovered this behaviour in Netscape 7.2, and noticed by accident that it appears to work in Firefox. However Firefox may need a restart before it starts observing the change, or before it starts including scheme:file in the Allowed Sites list.

To allow popups from file:/// URLs, add
scheme:file
to your Allowed Sites popup whitelist, and all file: URLs will now allow popups.

Also see bug 204285.

I'm not about to change bug status, but I'm guessing this should be changed to resolved/worksforme, unless someone can find what fixed this. There are a number of open bugs with no resolution that seem to be dupes of this (or marked as dupe of bug 204285).
Just to add my two cents, I'm having the same problem.

I can confirm this problem did not exists in 2.x. It is new to 3.x.

I have Firefox set to open links in Tabs. On sites that display items in a popup when clicked (like videos), are instead opening them in a new tab.

I have tried unchecking the "popup blocker" and even added an Exception to it, but the ONLY way to get these Javascript-based popups to work has been to change the link setting from "New Tab" to "New Windows". This should not be. Very annoying.
+1

For the latest 3.0.4, it has a similar issue, and then forces me to use IE. :(

Use Case:
A local HTML file, which needs to popup an Dialog. The URL of this local html file looks like:
file:///C:/Documents and Settings/username/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.Outlook/abc.htm.
As showing in this case, the HTML file which is actually opened from my Outlook (the attachment of an email is HTML file).

When the HTML wants to popup another window, there is a blocker bar showing, but the option list is:
Allow pop-ups for
Edit pop-up...
Don't show...

The strange is the first option, usually, it says "Allow pop-ups for site", but in this case, there is no site name, so actually, it can not unblock the page to show the popup.
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