228703 - Would like a way to freeze a window even when supportDDEExec is true

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Shankar Unni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031203 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031203 Firebird/0.7+

I'm caught between two conflicting desires:

There are some windows that I do not want to be hijacked when I click on links
in other programs (because they are showing something important that I'm working
on).

At the same time, I'd rather not set supportDDEExec to false, and have a fresh
window pop up each time and clutter up my desktop (and bloat Firebird).

It would be really nice to have a "View" option to "freeze" a window (i.e. make
it immune to being hijacked by DDEExec). When a DDE request comes in, FB should
pick one of the windows that do *not* have this freeze flag set (but otherwise
using whatever algorithm it uses now for which of those windows to pick). 

It should open a new window if there are no such windows.

There's no need (that I can see) to make this persistent in any fashion (e.g.
remember a per-site preference for this flag, or anything like that). A purely
transient flag is enough.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", true);
2. Bring up an important page, among a bunch of other windows.
3. Click on a URL in an external app.

Actual Results:  
1. Watch the window with the important page being hijacked :-).


Expected Results:  
1. Some way to set a flag on that Window in the View menu, perhaps, to prevent
this hijacking of just that one window.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

maybe it would be okay as an extension, but this is far too arcane for the core
design by far