304827 - mail.google.com - Uses onmousedown popups for compose window, which Firefox blocks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Hubert Muchalski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Gmail: cannot start "compose mail" in new window (tab) because of the popup
blocker. Problem remains even when I allow popups from gmail.com or disable
popup blocker completely. It hapens every time i want to use "new window" link
in Gmail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.If you have gmial account - log in
2.Try to compose new mail by pressing "Shift" and clicking "Compose Mail"
3.or click compose mail and then "new window" link.

Actual Results:  
Popup blocker blocks new "compose mail" window and Gmail claims that popup
blocker is working

Expected Results:  
Be able to allow popups from gmail.com

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Gmail is a complex web application. The compose link is a not a normal link, I
think it is javascript link. This might be dupe of Bug 55696 in that case.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050816
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005081608

WFM

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 239403 / tech evang?

Comment 4

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

WORKSFORME as long as 'mail.google.com' is on the popup whitelist or if the
popup blocker is disabled. Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050816 Firefox/1.0+.

Seems like it is definitely a mousedown event triggering the popup, and that
(bug 239403) is marked WONTFIX.

Just change your whitelist entry from 'gmail.com' to 'mail.google.com' and it
should work for you.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

-> evang, because otherwise this is a dup of bug 239403.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Shift+C, which is also supposed to open gmail's compose page in a new window, is
also blocked by the Firefox popup blocker.  I don't know if that's because Gmail
is using the wrong event, or because Firefox blocks all the onkey* events.

Comment 7

[Hubert Muchalski]

(In reply to comment #4)
> WORKSFORME as long as 'mail.google.com' is on the popup whitelist or if the
> popup blocker is disabled. Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050816 Firefox/1.0+.
> 
> Seems like it is definitely a mousedown event triggering the popup, and that
> (bug 239403) is marked WONTFIX.
> 
> Just change your whitelist entry from 'gmail.com' to 'mail.google.com' and it
> should work for you.

I did as you wrote but it doesn't work. I tried many domain names and it is
still blocking.

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Jesse or bent, is this still a problem in Gmail?

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050317 Minefield/3.0pre

WFM.  Shift+click on the Compose link works fine, and Gmail doesn't need to be on my popup blocker whitelist.

Comment 10

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Thanks, Jesse. WORKSFORME sounds good.