Can´t authorize local application to open pop-ups
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Fix Released
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Medium
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
My Bank account is accessed via a local Java program (not a javascript).
Its "Print" button tries to open a pop-up that show a stripped version of what I see on the screen.
When I click "Print" button on the Java application screen I get: "FF prevented this site from opening 1 pop-up window"
Then I click on "Preferences" button to allow pop-us for this site (file:/
After I do this, the option "Allow pop-ups for" shows just it. No site name, no nothing.
If I try to use "Edit pop-up Blocker Preferences..." and stick "file:///home/..." in the "Address of web site field", FF strips all but the "home" word and also do not allow pop-ups for this local Java application.
If I disable blocking pop-ups at large in FF's Edit->Preferenc
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 29 18:00:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030426 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030426 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
If the body element in a file:// URL document has an onload handler and the user
has popup blocking enabled, the blocked-popup indicator icon will appear when
loading that document via the file URL. Clicking the indicator icon opens the
dialog that shows which pages had popups blocked. All this is as expected. If
I click the 'Unblock Site' button to unblock the file:// page, I receive an
alert 'will now be able to open unrequested popup windows' and the URL is
removed from the blocked list. The indicator remains, and reloading the page
gives the same behavior.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create document with a body element that has an onload handler that opens a
window. Save this document to your local hard drive.
2. Choose File|Open File and load that document, click the blocked-popup indicator.
3. Select the URL you just loaded from the list. Click Unblock Site.
Expected Results:
It is certainly consistent to block popups from file:// URLs, but at least allow
them to be added to the unblocked list. It may be more feasible/sensible to
simply allow popups if the origin is a file:// URL.
This is annoying if you regularly keep popup blocking enabled but are working
with web pages on local storage that need to open windows from onload handlers.