368192 - Popup blocker should allow one-time allowance, not just always and never

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282515

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

When Firefox blocks a site from opening a popup, the options button should have an additional option to allow the popup to open a window one time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto site that opens popups
2. See popup blocked message at top
3.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It does offer this, at least sometimes. Click the "Options" button and you'll see "Show <url>" items at the bottom of the list. For some reason it doesn't always appear, though (I can see them when visiting http://www.popuptest.com/popuptest1.html, but not when visiting http://cnn.com).

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Dupe of bug 331739?

Comment 3

[Michael]

Not a dupe of 331739.  That bug addresses several things, but not a "allow just this once" functionality.

What I am after is two fold:  1) I want to see what the popup may be, and 2) I may want to allow one popup for a particular page, but not enable them for the entire site.  For example, I may want to allow one story to give me a popup vote window on CNN, but I do not want to enable popups for the entire cnn.com domain.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

As I said in my earlier comment, we already do what you want, we just don't seem to do it consistently. There's likely an existing bug filed on that inconsistency.

Comment 5

[Angel Blue]

Firefox 3.0.x does seems to occasionally allow the user to open the pop-up but this behavior seems inconsistent and there is no option to allow one-time.