Closed Bug 292989 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

"Disable Common Annoyances" should be able to turn of status bar on JavaScript popups

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: robvdl, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050501 Firefox/1.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050501 Firefox/1.0+ The "Disable Common Annoyances" setting for JavaScript is good except that if you want to create a popup window with no toolbars and no statusbar using JavaScript, then the statusbar cannot be turned off on these popups if this setting is ticked. This can be a little bit annoying on XUL applications, where I would not want a statusbar on all my popup dialogs. For an example, see the Mozilla Amazon Browser XUL application, and go to help -> about, if the Common Annyances setting is ticked, there will be a status bar on the about dialog, if it is unticked, there will not be a statusbar. If possible, it would be good to change this behaviour, and make it possible for the statusbar to be hidden only on popup windows, but not on the main browser window, if the "disable common annoyances" setting is ticked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on "disable common annoyances" 2. Go to MAB application URL: http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul 3. Click Help -> About Actual Results: The about dialog has a statusbar Expected Results: Popup dialogs/windows should be able to hide statusbar, even if common annoyances setting is ticked.
You're back to a little better off, now that bug 299424 took us back to having UI that lets people decide they want popups without a statusbar, but defaulting to allowing them isn't going to happen: it was done in bug 252811 because the other thing you can do with a popup that doesn't have a statusbar is put your own content at the bottom of the popup which looks like a statusbar claiming that the popup comes from a particular secure site.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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