Re: pop-up ads and denial of service attacks

[Ben Bucksch]

TenThumbs wrote:

>I would go for a simple UI.
>
> Should websites be allowed to open new windows on your desktop?
>       ( ) Always
>       ( ) Never
>       ( ) Allow websites to display new information in the window they are
>           already using.
>
This does not work for me. Many sites assume that I am dumb and not able 
to do rightclick-OpenInNewWindow, but use javascript:window.open for 
"links" that show me additional information to the current page (without 
closing it). E.g. "Enlarge Screenshot" or "Explain this form field". 
These "links" still have to work (even for yet unknown sites), that's 
why the current backend prefs don't work for me. If you show them in the 
current window, you might break things (e.g. going away from the form 
that I'm just filling out.)