277816 - Popunder scripts not blocked

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[jcaesar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0+

"popunder" scripts which allow a window to push itself back in display order are
not blocked. There is absolutely no good reason for a Popunder except to hide
windows user are likely to close. They may even make you accidentally click
closed a window you wanted to stay open as the offending window conveniently
ducks out of site. These are mostly a problem on annoying pop-up ads, but they
are common to auto-refresh, auto-redirect and auto-content-change pages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a site with a popunder script
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
page I was working on was replaced by another open window by a third window
which was already bannished to the back.

Expected Results:  
blocked the script. This is slightly more annoying than slow loading pages
suddenly popping to the front, especially when you are typing.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

example url please

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Since some people actually use sites that use that function for good reason, how
about if we have a preference, and some UI for it? We could put it in Tools -
Options - Web features - (Javascript) Advanced, and call it "Allow scripts to...
Raise or lower windows".

Oh, wait, that's already there.