258674 - New popup notification bar should give alert similar to IE

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Hawkins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040902 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040902 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)

In IE, the first time a popup is blocked and the new yellow 'notification bar'
is triggered, there is an alert explaining what has just happened. Firefox used
to have something like this for its popup blocking, but the functionality was
evidently lost when the new popup notication scheme went into effect...
Something similar to IE's method should now be used, as it is VERY easy to not
notice the bar unless you are purposefully looking for it.

Similar individual alerts should probably be implemented for plugins, et cetera
(they are even harder to notice).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to cnn.com
2.you will recieve the new popup notification at the top of the screen
3.were you looking for news? if you were, chances are *quite* likely your eyes
were looking down on the page, and you completely missed subtle chreme-colored
alert at the top.

Actual Results:  
There was no notification

Expected Results:  
There should have been a notification(especially if this was my first time
running firefox), like there used to be for the old popup blocking scheme

Comment 1

[John Hawkins]

Attachment: IE Notification Example

Here is what the popup notification look like in IE

Comment 2

[Marko Macek]

perhaps there is a more relevant bug: the current popup handling where a menu
pops up on left click is very bad/annoying ui.

Comment 3

[John Hawkins]

(In reply to comment #2)
> perhaps there is a more relevant bug: the current popup handling where a menu
> pops up on left click is very bad/annoying ui.

While that too is a bug (that I personally agree needs to be fixed, BTW) I think
this is a different issue altogether. This, for all practical purposes, is a
regression of a previous feature. Also, other browser(s) with similar
alert-types have a dialogue explaining what's happening. Since our behavior
*is*, what amounts to some as a counter-intuitive left-click, then that just
reinforces IMHO the need for some sort of explanitory dialoge altert-box
(possibly re-appearing, with checkbox option to make it shut up - a la IE.)

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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