270019 - RFE: Popup blocker / preferences: "Ask" choice? (remembering decisions)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Klaus Kusche]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041113

Could we have a third preferences choice for popup blocking (in addition to
"block" and "allow"): "Ask", which would bring up a yes/no dialog for any
unrequested popup?

To make this feature more useful, the dialog could also contain a "remember this
site" or "remember this URL" choice. Future popup's from the same site / with
the same URL would not pop up the dialog again, but automatically be
blocked/allowed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Should be filed against popup blocking, but no, we're not going to have an "ask"
choice with a dialog. The whole point of blocking the popup is to prevent focus
stealing interruptions. I daresay the Mozilla Suite UI will get no improvements
unless someone writes it, but Firefox has, or is planned (search for bugs), a
feature to open up a blocked popup from the notification chrome. User choice, no
focus stealing, but the functionality will be there.

Comment 2

[Klaus Kusche]

You missed the main point here: It's not the dialog (I fully agree with you, a
dialog is disturbing and annoying, I just didn't have any better ideas).

It's that my blocking site list get's built up automatically over the time.
Currently, my choices are:
* Disable the blocker - results in many unwanted popups.
* Enable the blocker, use the exception list. This requires that I dig deeply
into the preferences menu and type in some text (or perform some cut and paste)
for each site which needs popups - very uncomfortable and complicated.
* Enable the blocker, don't use the exception list. This results in an extra
click each time I visit a site which needs popups - slows down each visit to
such a site.

I want the best of both worlds: Minimum overhead for building the exception list
(by automatically remembering the URL), and no extra click for known sites.

IE works the same for its "trusted sites" zone: If IE security settings forbid
something, you may add the site to your "trusted" zone with a single click, and
without editing or cutting/pasting URL's, to allow the operation for this site
in future.

P.S.: I didn't find a popup blocker component?

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

There won't be any changes in the 'suite, and this dupes various Firefox bugs.

Click on the "!" status bar icon to easily add the site to the whitelist. Or
"Tools | Popup Manager | allow popups from this site" in the menu. No digging
deep into preferences required.

Right-click on the "!" status bar icon to open the actual popup.

Changing the blocker guts to look up URLs rather than sites isn't in the cards
for the 'suite, and for the most part sites are either responsible or not as a
whole.