Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:34:46 -0400, /Tom S./:
I have SM 2.4.1 running on Win XP SP3.
Here's something that's bugged me for a long while. I
thought eventually someone else would bring it up
and soon after, it would be fixed. Oh well.
Why is it SM no longer stops pop-ups?
SM continues to stop automatic popups. I don't see a change in the
behavior.
When a page loads that has a pop-up, I have
assigned a "pop" sound and the highlighted
exclamation point shows on the bottom toolbar. But
then, if I should click anywhere on the page, the
pop-up will open into a new tab, instead of
remaining suppressed. This happens on almost all
websites that use pop-ups. (Oftentimes, they will
use Flash for these pop-ups, but the Flashblock
extension disables it, so it only shows the "F"
button.)
Is there anything I can change to prevent the
pop-ups from happening?
You may stop interacting with the page but I don't think that's much
useful for you. Unfortunately popups triggered from an interactive
actions are not blocked, otherwise it would block all legitimate
popups triggered explicitly by you.
You may however try to blocking somewhat more (than the default
setup) or most popups with the Edit -> Preferences: Browser / Link
Behavior settings:
Open links meant to open a new window in:
(x) The current tab/window
When scripts want to open a new window:
(x) Always divert windows into tabs
The label for the later is somewhat confusing according the real
preference documentation [1]:
| 0
| Divert all links according to browser.link.open_newwindow.
| This includes:
| * All HTML links with target="_blank".
| * All JavaScript calls to window.open().
That should mean no new windows/tabs could be created by web content
- only explicitly by you (e.g. using Ctrl+N or Ctrl+T).
Using the default value for the second option with the changed value
for the first would also block more but no all of the popups (see
what fits bets for you):
Open links meant to open a new window in:
(x) The current tab/window
When scripts want to open a new window:
(x) Don't divert custom windows into tabs
The later really means:
| 2
| Divert all links according to browser.link.open_newwindow, unless
| the new window specifies how it should be displayed.
| This includes:
| * All links with target="_blank".
| * JavaScript calls to window.open() without the "features"
| parameter (3rd parameter).
| This does not include:
| * JavaScript calls to window.open() with the "features"
| parameter (3rd parameter).
This will eliminate more of the new windows, unless opened by
scripts with "features" parameter.
[1] <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction>
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Stanimir
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