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

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: Re: Reason #1781 to hate Mosa^H^H^H^HNets^H^H^H^HMozil^H^H^H^H^HFirefox.
Date: 19:05 on 15 Mar 2006
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:41:47PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> [2006-03-14 11:50]:
> >On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:07:17PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> >> That is a fine theory, except so many webapps would cease to
> >> work (yes, they're hateful; no, that doesn't mean Firefox can
> >> ignore them) that the popup blocking setting would have to be
> >> considered hateful ANYWAY. Maybe extra-strong popup blocking
> >> should be a hidden pref.
> >None that I can think of.  Well, none that I want to work
> >anyway, cos the only ones I can think of are advertising shite.
> >Really, I can't think of a single site I've ever used where I
> >would want popups to appear other than in the circumstances I
> >specified.
> I use several sites where the [Preview] button on a posting form
> pops up a window

You mean that something pops up when you click on something?  That's
precisely what my cunning plan would permit.

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