284827 - Title in popup window includes hostname

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[giuseppe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

In the page specified in URL section, select for example "guitars" category and
click on a product: The title of the popup window is incorrect because only
firefox print before the domain name and next real title.
I have upgrade to 1.0.1, before this problem did'nt exist.

Giuseppe Minotti

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.jim-reed-guitars.com/eng/prodotti.php
2. select, for example, "guitars" category
3. click on product to zoom

Actual Results:  
popup title print first domain name and next real title

Expected Results:  
the software should print only the title specified between <title></title> html tag

no additional information

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This was added as an anti-spoofing measure in bug 22183.  

This anti-spoofing measure might not go into the trunk and future releases. See
bug 22183 comment 253.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

So this is a wontfix for security reasons, right?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Sort of. It's a WORKSFORME if you look at the trunk; this measure isn't going to
be implemented there.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Wolfgang Dinstl]

If a web-app creates some popups it is very annoying to swith between windows, 
which all have almost the same title. It is not easy to find the window in the 
windowlist or almost impossible.
I would prefer an option to switch off this feature!

Comment 5

[Martin Votzi]

I'd like to suggest a config-setting to suppress the domain in window title if 
the parent window has the same domain.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 313887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Boey Maun Suang]

I can reproduce this bug as described while using Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 on Mac OS X 10.4.

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 8

[Simon Lieschke]

Attachment: Screenshot displaying the problem

This behaviour appears in Firefox 2.0.

I find it renders features like desktop scorecards from cricinfo.com useless. Popup desktop scorecard windows include the current score of a game in the page title, which allows me to have the popup window minimised on my task bar so I see the latest score without need to switch windows. This however is rendered useless by Firefox as the host name appears before the window title and so the score is not visible in the taskbar text.

The attached screenshot demonstrates what is seen in Firefox and Internet Explorer side-by-side.

Comment 9

[OstGote!]

It is WORKSFORME if you always enable the URL/Location bar (like the IE in example attachment). Then you will see the title first, see Bug 304388. 

Set dom.disable_window_open_feature.location to true to get always the location bar.

If you don't have a location bar, because you allowed JS to hide it then you will see the host name first - for security reasons, see the mentioned bug. So resolving as WONTFIX.