Re: Chromeless popups (was: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox)

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From: peter f miller
Subject: Re: Chromeless popups (was: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox)
Date: 18:50 on 20 Oct 2006
On 10/19/06, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> wrote:
> What's hateful is that there's no easy way to override this from
> the UI -- sometimes, whatever the script writer's opinion, *I*
> want the UI elements, and I want a button somewhere obvious on
> such windows that gives me back all of the browser chrome, no
> questions asked.

Just yesterday I spent awhile searching for a Firefox extension that
would allow some control over those windows from hell. No luck. The
hateful aspect of them that got me started on the search is the
inability to resize the windows. Ugh! I can see a perverse rational
for not wanting other UI elements to appear since they may interfere
with the layout of your impossible to navigate site, but the ability
to resize the windows is invisible. The only time it makes any
difference to your user's experience is when they *want* to resize a
window and find out that you won't let them. Thank you kind webmaster.
For a second there I thought I actually wanted to see the whole
contents of your page. Now I know better. I think I'll go outside
instead.
There's stuff above here

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