263248 - Popup blocker blocks JS popups, even when site whitelisted or popup blocker disabled altogether.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bruce Nicoll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041006 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041006 Firefox/0.9.1+

When visiting a page that contains a JS link which opens an article in a new
page, the pop-up blocker kills it - even when the domain has been whitelisted or
the popup blocker has been disabled entirely. Also, in the 0.10.1 release, which
has the funky new GUI for the popup blocker, you should be able to right click
on the popup blocker bar and opt to show the popup anyway. Clicking this fails
to open the article, and simply causes multiple instances of the URI to be
listed at the bottom of the context menu for showing.
Reproduced in a nightly downloaded 10 minutes ago, and the official release of
0.10.1.
Note: Although the error can be reproduced at the above site, I can't actually
find another site that uses JS to open a link in a new window at the current
moment. If someone would like to throw one at me, i'd be more than happy to test it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit site containing JS link to open page in new window.
2. Click link.
3. Cry.

Actual Results:  
Pop-up blocker blocked new page.

Expected Results:  
Page should've been opened in new tab.

Javascript is enabled. Options Selected:
Raise or lower windows, change images.
Problem still exists when all JS operations are permitted.
Tab-browser extensions is installed, but page failed to open even with it disabled.
user.js file contains the following, error continues even when removed.
// disable target="_blank" (open in same window):
user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);

It works in IE. :(

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

If you're referring to the "please click Martin on the video shoot below" image
link on http://www.openheartzoo.com/chromosome2.htm , the popup appears fine
with popup blocking on with no exceptions, linux firefox aviary 20041007

Comment 2

[Bruce Nicoll]

Gah, hell knows what's going on here. I try another nightly and it works fine,
despite it being 20041006 too...
Shoot me, I apologise.

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

ok :) -> wfm. One thing to note is that a popup due to a click may be blocked if
the click happens before the page loading is complete.