Closed Bug 114993 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

limit number of pop-ups from each page

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: netdragon, Assigned: security-bugs)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: helpwanted)

In bug 29346, you made it so that popup windows can be disabled, but it would be nice if we had a little more control. We should be able to block the 2nd (or 3rd, etc) popup window from a page and also the first popup window of a popup window. This would allow only one (or more) popup windows from any page. Couldn't find a dupe for this.
Whiteboard: dupeme
->prefs Brian, please stop filing bugs on Browser General. This component is for people who don't know any better. You've been around this project long enough to be picking better components. Thanks. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=MailNews
Assignee: asa → sgehani
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Preferences
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: doronr → sairuh
Summary: Prevent popup windows of a certain amount of levels. → [RFE] Prevent popup windows of a certain amount of levels.
Over to Mitch for a look.
Assignee: sgehani → mstoltz
Why would you want to allow even one? Seems to me like you either want to see popup windows or you don't. I don't see much point in this, but I don't want to mark it wontfix out of hand. Adding helpwanted keyword. Brian, why don't you find someone who wants to code this?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: dupeme → helpwanted
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Some sites use popup windows as part of their site. My school's webmail site uses a popup window to tell you how many letters have been grabbed. If I had popup windows off, I wouldn't see this even though I would want to. It seems that most of the problem occurs when sites try to spam you with tons of popup windows that open more popup windows, etc. One window IMHO isn't a problem. Maybe not even two. Blocking them would break many sites and you might not even know why or if they are broken.
QA Contact: sairuh → bsharma
Summary: [RFE] Prevent popup windows of a certain amount of levels. → limit number of pop-ups from each page
Blocks: popups
We're still working on perfecting popup blocking, but I don't think limiting them to an arbitrary number per page is the answer, and no one else has come forward in support of this, so I'm marking this Wontfix.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
This has been done in FireFox with the setting dom.popup_maximum.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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