User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 You can't unblock pop-ups from local files. I have a file that I reference via a "file:///" partial url. That .html file opens windows. Under certain circumstances (see next bug report) netscape blocks the pop-up. (I normally block pop-ups in my perferences.) If you then click on the "pop-up blocked" icon, a dialog box shows up which would normally allow you to specify the URL of a site that you wanted to allow pop-ups from. In this case, that input box is blank. I should be able to specify that the site whose name is zero length may create pop-ups, or I should be able to specify that if I'm using the "file:" protocol instead of the "http" protocol, then pop-ups are allowed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. disable pop-ups in your preferences; display an icon when pop-ups are blocked. 1.5. create a web page that causes netscape to think that a pop-up window was created 2. reference the page via a "file:///" url. 3. run the javascript on the page until the pop-up blocked icon appears. 4. Click on the pop-up blocked icon. Try to leave most pop-ups disabled, but not "file:///" pop-ups. Actual Results: Could not allow pop-up from my files without enabling all pop-ups. Expected Results: Allowed me (or provided better instructions) to enable pop-ups from my local files. Note that if the bug is fixed whereby forms and anchors that specify a named target window actuall appear in the named target window, then this wouldn't be a problem. Also, I'm about to submit a separate bug stating that the windows I create are either always pop-up windows or are never pop-up windows. There is a workaround available: enable pop-ups in your preferences before using a special local file and disable pop-ups afterward.

According to bug 177106, adding localhost doesn't work, adding local IP works. (Try 127.0.0.1) Resolving as dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177106 ***

Not a dup. http://localhost != file:// As a silyl workaround, you can add "scheme:file" in the manager. The real solution is to make that more user friendly, and part of that is to properly prefill it.

(In reply to comment #2) > Not a dup. http://localhost != file:// > > As a silyl workaround, you can add "scheme:file" in the manager. > The real solution is to make that more user friendly, and part of that is to > properly prefill it. I agree: not a dup. Prefilling would be great. Note that I just typed "scheme:file" into the dialog while editing preferences, and it kept the "scheme" part. When I did it again as part of interacting with the "pop-up blocked" icon, it said "The web site scheme already exists in this list." (That should have quotes or italics around the word "scheme", or it should tell me the name of the site scheme that already exists. :-)

Isn't this bug a dupe of bug 204328 ?

Looks like a duplicate to me. Thanks, Cs *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204328 ***