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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:01:48PM -0500, 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.
Those designers are hateful.
However, so are the Firefox authors who can't seem to stop them. The
way to stop them seems obvious to me. If the user has selected the menu
thingy to block popups, then Firefox should prevent any new windows
being created at all, regardless of how they are created, except in
direct response to either the user selecting the "new window" menu
entry, the user selecting "open link in new window" from a link's
context menu, the user middle-clicking on a link, or the user starting
another copy of firefox.
Creating a new window under any other circumstance is WRONG.
Firefox's broken handling of trying to run two copies of it at once is a
whole different rant. If I type "mozila-firefox&" I want to start a new
instance of firefox, I don't want the process to realise that it has a
cousin already running and just work some juju to re-use that. I might
want to, for example, use a different $DISPLAY.
And fuck all that stupid "user profile" shit too.
HATE.
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