212444 - Javascript controls don't work, New window is open even when turned off in preferences

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[xspuente]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ast-ES; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ast-ES; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

A new window is opened in a javascript page even when I have set in preferences
not to allow open new windows. These controls were working fine in this web page
(and others) with 1.3 until today that I changed to 1.4. It looks that the
Javascript preferences for the browser do nothing in terms of Open new windows.
I have Javascript enabled for the browser, but all options turned off, and
pop-up windows also to not allow them to open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the following URL: http://www.ensembl.org/Rattus_norvegicus/exportview
2. Select the "Bases from:" and type from: "1" to "10000"
3. Click on "Export" button at the bottom of the page.

Actual Results:  
A new window opens with the exported sequence.

Expected Results:  
The exported sequence should appear in the same window I was working (as Mozilla
1-1.3 were doing so far when Javascript Open new window was off in the
preferences panel)

I think that's the component that is wrong, but might be is another group.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That button does not use javascript to open the window; it just submits with a
target of "results" (a named window that we create).  We don't have a preference
to override that that is settable via the preference dialog.

Comment 2

[zack-weg]

Actually the |document.export_cfg.target=target;| is commented out (because line
feeds should be ignored in CDATA attributes), but there may be a new quirk for
parsing it intentionally wrong.

To disable the new window, set |browser.block.target_new_window| to true in
about:config.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Marking Verified.

[e-mail]: thank you for this report. Please try out
about:config in the URL bar and see if that helps. 

Here are some links about "hidden" preferences in Mozilla:

  http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/
  http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

Comment 4

[xspuente]

Thanks, changing |browser.block.target_new_window| to true resolved the problem.
However, I think it should be set as true by default in Mozilla, as it was for
Mozilla 1.0 to Mozilla 1.3.