Closed Bug 485159 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

block new windows

Categories

(Firefox :: Security, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Security
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: angelo.borsotti, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7

Advertisement is often shown creating new browser windows.
Firefox allows users to configure it to block popup windows
only. In order to protect users against adware, they should be
allowed to block also the creation of new windows, unless this
is done directly from the user interface.

Reproducible: Sometimes
A popup window is a new window (with size X, often small).

marking invalid because popup=new window
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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