Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Michael Leuchtenburg wrote:

> On a lot of sites, the designers use multiple methods to get around 
> all the various methods of blocking popups. So, if Firefox blocks one 
> of the methods, but not all of them, then it'll see - and block - some 
> popups, but others will get through.

Where are you supposed to turn if you just don't EVER want a web page to 
open new content in a new window? 

Some web applications depend on having multiple windows open, but in 
almost every case I'd prefer one window with multiple tabs. No luck.

For that matter, all the browsers have tabs now, even the betas for the 
next IE revision. Why can't we (as users, as developers, whatever) tell 
the browser to direct new windows into tabs in the current window? 

I seem to remember a Firefox plugin that did this, but that doesn't 
count, on grounds that nearly no one is using it, so web developers 
can't be expected to depend on it being available. If mainline Firefox 
(or one of the modern peers to it) supported scripting tabs, this 
problem could start to go away. As it is now, we're stuck :-/


-- 
Chris Devers

• Michael Leuchtenburg 01:01 on 11 Mar 2006
  • Chris Devers 04:26 on 11 Mar 2006
    • Jason Diamond 07:23 on 11 Mar 2006
    • Martin Ebourne 09:56 on 11 Mar 2006
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    • Peter da Silva 16:22 on 11 Mar 2006
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    • Philip Newton 14:44 on 13 Mar 2006
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  • David Cantrell 11:51 on 13 Mar 2006
    • A. Pagaltzis 12:07 on 13 Mar 2006
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    • Chris Devers 13:37 on 13 Mar 2006

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