New tab features shouldn't block javascript popups....

prancer · Post by **prancer** » October 13th, 2004, 12:16 am

Not sure how bugzilla works so perhaps someone can post this for me.

The new Options-Advanced-Tabbed Browsing should have an option to allow javascript or similar windows to open normally instead of a new tab. What I mean is small windows that usually don't have toolbars, etc. They were meant to be seen as a popup windows and you should have the option to keep that feature while still blocking target="_blank"
If you use the "force links to open in new window to open in:" it creates this problem.
It would be much better to do it like the Single Window extension where u can choose to allow javascript popups to work as intended.

Here's and example though it's a flash link....
http://www.evanescence.com/
Click Tour on the top menu

MechanicalMan · Post by **MechanicalMan** » October 13th, 2004, 12:25 am

They don't. And the tour link opens a new window for me, as it should. Sounds like you are using an extension...?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041009 Firefox/0.10

prancer · Post by **prancer** » October 13th, 2004, 12:47 am

U sure? I just deleted firefox and my profile, reinstalled fresh to double check and it opens them in new tabs.
Have you set...
Options->Advanced->Tabbed Browsing-> Force links to open in new window to open in:-> A new tab?

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » October 13th, 2004, 1:08 am

Install TBP 0.9.91 and set it up to only divert unresized JavaScript popups into tabs; that should take care of your problem.

MechanicalMan · Post by **MechanicalMan** » October 13th, 2004, 1:27 am

Did this change since 10-9 or something? I sure wasn't expecting it to.

prancer · Post by **prancer** » October 13th, 2004, 1:28 am

why install an extension to do something that's built in?
anyways, i prefer the single window extension
and i got the workaround from the other thread complaining about this but it should still be addresses before RC1

prancer · Post by **prancer** » October 13th, 2004, 1:29 am

MechanicalMan wrote:Did this change since 10-9 or something? I sure wasn't expecting it to.

perhaps it did not sure
it doesnt work like that on 10/11 or 10/12

Mike203 · Post by **Mike203** » October 13th, 2004, 1:37 am

Hi all,
same problem here :-(

Greetings

dirtyepic · Post by **dirtyepic** » October 13th, 2004, 2:56 am

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c ... 72962#c174 ?

i'm pretty sure my http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=143698 is the same thing, only with a chrome window instead of a java pop-up window..

then again i'm just guessing at things i'm admittedly ignorant about.

Pike · Post by **Pike** » October 13th, 2004, 2:59 am

Type about:config into the location bar, find browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction, set it to 2.

hariskar · Post by **hariskar** » October 13th, 2004, 6:32 am

tenbucks wrote:why install an extension to do something that's built in?
anyways, i prefer the single window extension
and i got the workaround from the other thread complaining about this but it should still be addresses before RC1

Show some respect tenbucks...

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » October 13th, 2004, 7:42 am

Pike wrote:Type about:config into the location bar, find browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction, set it to 2.

For those of us who dislike using about:config, you can alternately use TBP 0.9.91. Set "Open requested JavaScript popups in:" to "Unresized Popups" and you'll be OK.

Mguel · Post by **Mguel** » October 18th, 2004, 6:51 am

I have the same problem, and also noted it since 11 oct (aprox).

And it is fixed with browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction, set it to 2, so thanks Pike for the tip!

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » October 18th, 2004, 7:15 am

Note that the fix for bug 263844 means that some JavaScript popups which broke when forced into tabs will now work again.

chon_wang · Post by **chon_wang** » October 18th, 2004, 12:10 pm

tenbucks wrote:why install an extension to do something that's built in?
anyways, i prefer the single window extension
and i got the workaround from the other thread complaining about this but it should still be addresses before RC1

not to bash Single Window Extension, but it's a pos. It wouldn't block some ad popups if you ran the popup tests. Thanks to TheOneKEA for the great extension. TBP owned!