642672 - Unable to allow popups from HTML files loaded through file: protocol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204285

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

If a HTML file that is loaded via file:/// contains a window.open(), the popup is blocked and there isn't a way to remove popup blocking.

This error is logged to the console when clicking "Allow popups for":
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPermissionManager.add]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 5786"  data: no]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save this file to locally: https://www.msu.edu/~weinjare/popup_bug.html
2. View this file using Firefox: file:///C:/<path_to_file>/popup_bug.html
3. Try to allow popups
Actual Results:  
This exception is logged to the error console:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPermissionManager.add]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 5786"  data: no]

I also have screenshots of the UI, since there is a little jankiness because there is no host to reference in the context menus.

Expected Results:  
Ability to allow popups.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Screenshot #1 of the bug

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Screenshot #2 of the bug

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Lowered to minor because the workaround is simply choosing the bottom option of the context menu to open the specific popup.

It also could be odd to "allow popups" for all files on the hard drive. This could be implemented per folder, or the option to allow popups could be disabled if using the file: protocol.