255160 - Show blocked popup option shouldn't contain url

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Blake Ross]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to www.cnn.com.
2. Click the "popup blocked" message at the top.
3. Wonder what the hell the "Show
http://blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah..." option at the top is, and
don't click on it because you're scared.

Expected results: the menu item says "Show blocked popup".

Comment 1

[GerbenW]

Don't agree, i'd like to see some info about the blocked popup to see wether I
think it might be useful.
I can see why some people wouldn't want to see that, maybe turn it into an option?

Comment 2

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

Not a "blocker"

Comment 3

[Lorrin Nelson]

Don't agree either. Popup blocker keeps blocking popups from my allowed sites
list; nice to have URL so I can manually open it in a new tab. Wish I could copy
and paste the URL.

Comment 4

[Dan Fischbach]

I say it should contain the title of the would-be popup tab/window instead of
the URL.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Except that would involve loading all the pages beforehand to get their titles...

Comment 6

[Joe Hughes]

*** Bug 251051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Brandon Mitchell]

At cnn.com I don't have the option to show the blocked pop-up; all I have is the option to permanently allow all pop-ups from cnn.com in the future. Was the "show blocked pop-up" functionality recently removed from Firefox? I would have to give the removal of a feature as convenient as "show blocked pop-up" the "thumbs down."

Comment 8

[Brandon Mitchell]

Never mind, I tested it again and the option to show the blocked pop-up was there. I had navigated to cnn.com two minutes ago and the only relevant option I had was "Allow pop-ups for www.cnn.com". Also the pop-up block icon in status bar was missing.

Comment 9

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Showing the URL of the popup is the most that we can do, since showing the title of the popup will require us to load the document. This is fine as-is, and is unlikely to change in the near future.