850604 - window.open no longuer accepting optional parameters

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Nassim Bennouna]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

Upgrading from FF 18.0.2 to FF 19.0.2.
Go to http://www.gtalbot.org/FirefoxSection/Popup/PopupAndFirefox.html#TestPopupControl (link grabbed from https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM/window.open) 
Click on "Open a requested popup"


Actual results:

Nothing : the popup didn't show up



Expected results:

A new window should have opened

Additional informations : 
the popups generated through onclick + window.open(param1,param2,param3) no longuer open
If i remove param3 (optional specific settings for the window) the popup opens in a new tab (expected behavior)

Comment 1

[Nassim Bennouna]

Ok in fact it seems it's not linked to javascript at all as i'm not able to open a new window using the client functionalities (Ctrl + N or File -> New Window)

This is on a Win 7 Desktop

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Did you try safe mode?

Comment 3

[Loic]

WFM on Win 7. In addition of safe mode, try a new profile:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 4

[Mitza]

I think this should be in General component.

Comment 5

[Mitza]

WFM on Win 7 x64 using FF Build ID: 20130307023931.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

the reporter never answered the question