419331 - Javascript resizing/moving windows should be enabled with a blacklist rather than disabled with a whitelist in Firefox 3

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Ankit Singla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

When I click on a woot product picture, the popup window should resize to fit the image. In Firefox 3, it doesn't do this unless I whitelist each site. I'd rather see a way to keep it enabled for all sites but have certain sites blacklisted or better yet, some domains (allow using *) blacklisted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a woot site for example (shirt.woot.com)
2. Click on shirt picture
Actual Results:  
Popup window with detailed shirt picture appears. When image loads, window does not resize automatically to fit image, and a manual resize is necessary. One can add shirt.woot.com to whitelist, but one still needs to add the other woot sites (wine.woot, etc) for JS to work everywhere.

Expected Results:  
The window should have resized unless I blacklist the site rather than only if I whitelist it.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

A blacklist would not accomplish anything; a malicious site can have many hostnames.  See bug 412862 for some of the reasons we changed the default to "disallow".