275071 - Open popup bookmark: differing behaviour w/keyboard and w/mouse

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P5)

Description

[João]

Concerning the popup blocker, opening a Javascript bookmark with from the
Bookmarks menu has different behaviour when using the mouse and when using the
keyboard.

To reproduce the problem:

1) Set the Popup blocker to accept the specified URL.
2) Create a javascript bookmark, which does a window.open() for the URL. Let's
name the bookmark "ZZT".
3) Alt+B (Bookmarks)
3) 'Z' key.

Result:

The popup blocker announces the window has been blocked. This does not happen
(and the popup shows up unrestrained) when using the mouse or the arrow keys to
navigate the Bookmarks menu and open the bookmark.

Expected result:

The popup blocker should not differentiate between using the keyboard speedkeys
and the mouse/arrow keys to open the popup.

Comment 1

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

*** Bug 275072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

At least tenatively --> NEW. Related (in the sense of "it might fix it" if not
"actually a dup of"): bug 268830

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Nope, not fixed by the fix for bug 268830 - I still see it in both Firefox and
in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050108

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Loads from bookmarks should just use the webnavigation flag to allow popups.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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