53319 - Unable to determine url of toolbarless popup windows

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

To determine the URL of a popup window, the user must do one of the following:
- look at the source of the page that pops it up
- add it to bookmarks, look at the bookmark, and delete the bookmark
- run mozilla with the -console option

I first encountered this problem while trying to figure out why the "Click here 
to get the plugin" popup wasn't working.

Many possible ways to fix this:
- "Open in normal window" option for popups (this isn't ideal for evil popups 
that make more popups, see bug 29346).
- Turn "add to bookmarks" into a dialog (bug 19922) so that people can use it 
to copy the url
- Show the url of all pages in view source (this would also help with evil 
framed sites that make it difficult to get one frame alone.)
- Make a "show popup info" page that lists the url of the page that popped it 
up in addition to the url of the popup itself.

Of course, this leaves the problem of pages that try to prevent you from 
getting a context menu (bug 40535), but this bug isn't just about malicious 
sites.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

why does this have anything to do with menus?!?

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Or, 
- Put "show page info" on page context menu (bug 41443)

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

->xpapps

Comment 5

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Adding show page info to the context would help solve this. Don't think we'll 
get to this during beta1, marking nsbeta1-

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

We have Properties now and are working out our Properties/Page Info story in 
another bug.  I think we can mark this fixed.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying claudius' Fixed bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

if you think this particular bug is not fixed, please make sure of the following
before reopening:

a. retest with a *recent* trunk build.
b. query bugzilla to see if there's an existing, open bug (new, reopened,
assigned) that covers your issue.
c. if this does need to be reopened, make sure there are specific steps to
reproduce (unless already provided and up-to-date).

thanks!

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