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

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From: Michael Leuchtenburg
Subject: Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.
Date: 01:01 on 11 Mar 2006

Spake Abigail:
> My hate isn't so much that it doesn't prevent a popup, my hate
> is that it proudly exclaims it prevented a popup when it didn't.
> 
> Now, if you can detect there was a popup, you should be able to 
> prevent it, shouldn't you?

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.

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There's stuff above here

Abigail 00:40 on 11 Mar 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 00:58 on 11 Mar 2006
- Michael Leuchtenburg 01:01 on 11 Mar 2006
  - Chris Devers 04:26 on 11 Mar 2006
    - too deep to show
  - David Cantrell 11:51 on 13 Mar 2006
    - too deep to show

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