280865 - in mfcembed blocking popups block them permanently when called from bookmarklets

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect)

Description

[Marc Boucher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9

In the current version (Gecko/20041217) of mfcembed, blocking the popups has a
side effect on bookmarlets.
The normal behavior for blocking popups is to disallow opening them while the
page is still loading. But once it's done mfcembed still doesn't allow opening
one from a bookmarklet, or by pasting javascript code in the url bar.
I've notice this in the last version of K-Meleon which use this version of
mfcembed: Gecko/20041220
Older versions of KM/mfcembed were working properly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in the profile directory of mfcembed (c:\WIN\Application
Data\MfcEmbed\Profiles\default\...), edit prefs.js and add the following line:
 user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
This will block popups on all pages.

2. start mfcembed and paste this in the url bar:
 javascript: window.open(location.href); void('');

3. Nothing happens. But since the page is not loading, opening a new window
should not be prevented.

Actual Results:  
In mfcembed popups are always blocked when started from a bookmarklet (js code)
or from the url bar (again js code).

Expected Results:  
Popups should be allowed (it was working correctly in previous versions).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

timeless, asa, we need a component for mfcembed issues...  None of the existing
components have anything to do with mfcembed.  Given that we have mac and gtk
embedding components, we should have a win one as well.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reopening.  This is a real issue; pretty similar to bug 331635.  Would be nice to actually fix our bugs.... :(

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Mass marking all MFCEmbed bugs as wontfix, since bug 377410 removed it. If this bug was erroneously included (or say equally applies to winEmbed), please reopen & accept my apologies.

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