667337 - The popup window is crippled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1714939

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

I clicked in a form on a page. This gave birth to a popup window — usability and my preferences forbid that, but this is another story. This popup window, once there, has to be normal. But it is crippled!

1/ Its address cannot be changed.
2/ It does not have the buttons: Back, etc.

See screen photo.

Since when some Web page author decides that my window on my computer running with my electricity lack the basic features of a Web browser window?

Please correct this.

Thanks,

Nicolas


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Firefox 4.0.1.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Attachment: Firefox crippled window.

Comment 2

[Thomas Ahlblom]

The features of the pop-up window probably depends on the arguments of a window.open() call and without the source code it's hard to say if something is wrong.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.open

Comment 3

[Vlad [QA]]

Have you tried the latest firefox? You can get it from here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

Comment 4

[:aceman]

It seems you can prevent removing the toolbars from new windows using the dom.disable_window_open_feature.* prefs in about:config. Please report if this isn't what you wanted.

As to why the window even opens ON YOUR DECISION (click), see e.g. bug 658911. If you don't like it, you can vote at bug 565104.

Comment 5

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

(In reply to comment #4)

> It seems you can prevent removing the toolbars from new windows using the
> dom.disable_window_open_feature.* prefs in about:config. Please report if
> this isn't what you wanted.

Thank you for the tip.
As a temporary workaround, I have now set some of the secret prefs of http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9AkSbsXOQBYJ:kb.mozillazine.org/Prevent_websites_from_disabling_new_window_features+%22dom.disable_window_open_feature%22&cd=2&hl=fr&ct=clnk&gl=fr&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.fr .
But, in my not so humble opinion, those prefs must be overt and these must be the default settings.

> As to why the window even opens ON YOUR DECISION (click)

Not really my decision. I had clicked on Play because I had decided to play a
video which was in a page. I had not decided to open a new page.

Comment 6

[:aceman]

Yes, but you can choose not to click if you do not like the page's behaviour. Firefox popup protection is designed to only protect against windows where you can't make the decision and the page throws windows in your face automatically.

Comment 7

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

(In reply to comment #6)

> Yes, but you can choose not to click if you do not like the page's
> behaviour.

Yes, only when I know, learnt the hard way, that the behaviour is bad.
Furthermore, this bad behaviour is not systematically triggered by the page -
sometimes, only at the first time in some navigation period.

> Firefox popup protection is designed to only protect against
> windows where you can't make the decision and the page throws windows in
> your face automatically.

This is not what Firefox advertises. And this is clearly not enough.

Comment 8

[:aceman]

> This is not what Firefox advertises. And this is clearly not enough.

Ok, then there is bug 565104 for this.

Comment 9

[Vlad [QA]]

Reporter, does the issue still occurring?
Please test also on the latest Firefox beta:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/6.0b5/mac/en-US/

Comment 10

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

I encounter a similar issue. I widen the scope of the bug file 667337.

Firefox 29, on Mac OS X 10.9.2. 

The following addresses explain how to have Firefox behave a little more decently than the defaults settings :

 - http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#DOM. 
 - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prevent_websites_from_disabling_new_window_features 
 - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dom.disable_window_open_feature.location

I have set the following hidden prefs to "false" : 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.location 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable 
 
The following hidden prefs are also "false" : 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.close 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar 
 - dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar 
 
In Firefox, I am at this address : 
http://www.france5.fr/emission/exil-nazi-la-promesse-de-lorient#disqus_thread 
For Disqus, I click on "S'identifier", and then I click on "Disqus". 
Firefox gives me the yellow bar. 
I click on the weird button-giving-menu "Préférences", and I choose the last menu item, in order to display the popup window.

* Expected behaviour : * 
Firefox opens the Disqus log-in form, in a new window. This new window is normal, it has the tabs bar, and the button(s), and the address bar.

* Actual behaviour : * 
Firefox opens the Disqus log-in form, in a new window. This new window is crippled, it misses the tabs bar, and the button(s), and the address bar. See screen photo to come attached Firefox-29-bug-crippled-window.png.

I remember having the expected behaviour, or so, in previous versions of Firefox. 
The actual behaviour looks like a regression.

Thank you for correcting that.

Nicolas Barbulesco

Comment 11

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Attachment: Firefox-29-bug-crippled-window.png

Comment 12

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Actually, for the hidden prefs to work as expected, I had to set them to "true". 
My misty brain had been lost in the double / triple negations. ^^ 
Sorry for the misunderstanding. 
Now, I have set the hidden prefs to "true", and the popup window is a normal window. 

It would be nicer for the user that the defaults settings give normal windows. It would not be a big deal for Web authors. Nowadays, popup windows have lost in popularity among Web authors.

Comment 13

[Stewart Gordon]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #6)
> Yes, but you can choose not to click if you do not like the page's
> behaviour.

Not a valid argument - the user might _want_ to access the linked-to content.

But there ought to be an RFE somewhere about making new windows created by scripts open as tabs instead....

Comment 14

[Andrei Purice]

Hey Nicolas,
Can you still reproduce this issue or should we close it?

Comment 15

[:Gijs (he/him)]

We've been making some changes wrt how popups behave that I believe address the issue that was reported. Best follow along there for the UI - bug 1714939 - but the about:config pref is already there, AIUI.