503841 - Popup Blocker

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Description

[adam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: No Help About in Prism

I'm using Prism to load Zimbra (not Zimbra Desktop) and clicking on an attached email triggers the "Oops! Browser is blocking popups" message in Zimbra. I'd like to be able to disable the popup blocker.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Prism instance for a Zimbra web ui.
2. Send email with attached email to account.
3. Click attached email.
Actual Results:  
"Oops! Browser is blocking popups" message in Zimbra. Presumably if this was another website, I'd just get nothing.

Expected Results:  
Attached message in popup window.

Comment 1

[adam]

For the record, new message/reply/etc popups appear fine, this seems to be restricted to email attachments only. Perhaps something different in the URL?

Comment 2

[Adam]

I'm having this trouble too, and so's this guy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/884926/mozilla-prism-disable-pop-up-blocker

Another, probably, related issue is that /links/ within the domain are opened in Prism popups rather than sent to the default browser.

Really like to be able to open popups, even if it's only for the domain. Don't need an edit or a preference, happy to just edit a file, if that's possible.

Comment 3

[Jochen]

The mac os version of prism allows to switch the popup blocker on an off, like original firefox. I would prefer this for the win version too.

Comment 4

[mozilla.org]

I was experiencing the exact same issues as "adam" above.  I am using the Firefox Prism extension, and have the Zimbra 6.x webmail interface saved as a webapp.  If I received an e-mail with another e-mail attached (an .eml file), Zimbra would tell me popups were being blocked when clicking on the attached .eml file.  However...

I can confirm (at least in my case, using Vista) that the fix mentioned below worked for me:

Quote...
"I added the following lines inside prefs.js located in

For Win XP: /Documents and Settings/[username]/Application Data/Prism/[app name]/Profiles/[prism profile name]/

For Vista: /Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/Prism/[app name]/Profiles/[prism profile name]/

user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", false);
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "allAccess");

Make sure your Prism application is closed before making these changes because it will overwrite the prefs.js on close, wiping out your changes."
End Quote

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/884926/mozilla-prism-disable-pop-up-blocker

I can now click on an .eml attachment and Prism allows Zimbra to open it in a new pop-up window, just as expected.

Hope that helps someone else that has been frustrated with this issue.

Comment 5

[Adam]

Not running Prism any more but that looks about right, thanks. Always wondered where the prefs.js was for Prism, guess I wasn't looking hard enough. :)

Comment 6

[Conrad]

this is happening to me on Prism installed via repositories, Eeebuntu 9.04 (EB3)

popup works fine on FF but on Prism I click and nothing happens...

the above prefs.js file fix did not help, either

Comment 7

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Prism isn't maintained anymore. Mass closing of the bugs.