Prevent this page from creating addtional dialogs

[jscher2000]

We have two different things going on here...

I'm suggesting adding a preference to about:config (or user.js in your profile folder).

Copy the preference name dom.successive_dialog_time_limit
Open about:config
Right-click in the preferences area and choose New > Integer
Paste the preference name and click OK
Then enter 0 and click OK

(With hand-entered preferences, reset does not work correctly, so don't use reset to change the value back to the default of 3. You'll have to do that manually.)

Any luck?

[ksisteve]

YOU'RE A BLOODY GENIUS! Thank you, it worked.

[dickvl]

If you created a Chrome folder (\f54slv98.default\Chrome\) then rename that folder to a lowercase chrome to avoid problems.

It should work if you use reset. That will set such a pref that doesn't exist by default to an empty string that Firefox will remove on a next start.

[jscher2000]

It should work if you use reset. That will set such a pref that doesn't exist by default to an empty string that Firefox will remove on a next start.

Aha, I wasn't patient enough to restart. It's good to know how to flush it if necessary.

[T0morrow]

I have a better question.How do i make this permanent?
Currently i place the checkmark and i get no more dialogs but it only lasts until i reaload the page.

Namely this happens when i try to rightclick to copy link address at say http://www.station-drivers.com/page/marvell.htm when rightclicking any of the floppy disk images (download links)

[jscher2000]

I have a better question.

This is someone else's thread, so that's a bit impolite.

Namely this happens when i try to rightclick to copy link address at say http://www.station-drivers.com/page/marvell.htm when rightclicking any of the floppy disk images (download links)

If you want to download images from that site, you can try the following:

(1) View > Page Info > Media tab

(2) Disable JavaScript (e.g., using the NoScript extension or in Tool > Options > Content)

Edit: oh, copying link locations. See #2 above. However, I think you should consider linking to the page. It's better netiquette not to hotlink to exe files on someone else's site.

[T0morrow]

I have a better question.

This is someone else's thread, so that's a bit impolite.

Since the question is directly related to the discussion here (the warning dialog and it's settings) then i did not see point in starting another thread.

Namely this happens when i try to rightclick to copy link address at say http://www.station-drivers.com/page/marvell.htm when rightclicking any of the floppy disk images (download links)

If you want to download images from that site, you can try the following:

(1) View > Page Info > Media tab

(2) Disable JavaScript (e.g., using the NoScript extension or in Tool > Options > Content)

Edit: oh, copying link locations. See #2 above. However, I think you should consider linking to the page. It's better netiquette not to hotlink to exe files on someone else's site.

You completely misunderstand me.I don't want to download anything from there.I want to make the warning dialog setting permament.Meaning if i get the warning once and i agree that further dialogs should be supressed then this setting should stick even after CTRL+F5.

[trolly]

See the first post on this page.

[T0morrow]

See the first post on this page.

Hmm don't know how i missed that.Anyway it tried this and with value 0 on dom.successive_dialog_time_limit i just get the first warning dialog an never reach the second one not to mention making this setting permanent.

So i tried value 1 and this has the same behavior as if the setting does not exist.Even tried 999 but still no luck.

The warning dialog was not supressed and no setting was made permanent.Even tried allowing or disabling popups in page permissions.

[jscher2000]

See the first post on this page.

Anyway it tried this and with value 0 on dom.successive_dialog_time_limit i just get the first warning dialog an never reach the second one not to mention making this setting permanent.

The confusion in this thread is that your request is the opposite of the one made by the original poster. The original poster wanted to allow unlimited frequent dialogs while you want to block them.

Perhaps as a workaround you should install Greasemonkey and create a userscript for the site along the following lines:

Code: Select all

document.onmousedown = "";

[nmout]

how can I block an entire site and not just a page from crating dialog in firefox 7.0.1?

[jscher2000]

how can I block an entire site and not just a page from crating dialog in firefox 7.0.1?

You might be able to use the security policies feature for this. In the following article, look at the section entitled "Zone Policies" ("if you wanted to restrict http://www.evil.org and http://www.annoying.com from creating dialog windows"):

Configurable Security Policies (CAPS)

[dtobias]

I don't think Firefox can ever make everybody totally happy in this regard; they're caught between trying to stop all the silly, devious techniques sites use to shove annoying marketing crap at users, and supporting the use of similarly convoluted stuff in web applications, intranets, extranets, and the like. Trying to tell the difference is extremely tricky.

[greendraw]

i don't find dom.successive_dialog_time_limit in FF 9.0.1. How i can disable show message "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogues"?

[trolly]

You may need to create it before.