[Camino] problems with popup-blocker

[Stuart Morgan]

On Feb 25, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Dominik wrote:

> I am not sure if this bug only appears on this webpage, or if it
> appears on others pages as well.

It's more bad site design than a bug. The way the popup blocker works  
is essentially by remembering the javascript call used to open the  
window, then opening it later if the user chooses to show it.  
Normally websites open popups by opening them with a certain URL  
which has the popup's content, so this works fine.

What this site is doing, for whatever reason, is opening a new copy  
of the same page, then later replacing the contents of that window  
with completely different HTML content. When the open command is  
replayed after you press "Allow Once", the part where it replaces the  
window content never happens. That's why if you press "Always Allow",  
you see it open two popups: the first is another copy of the page  
(which is what the popup blocker remembered), and the second is the  
popup as the site intended (which was opened by the first popup).

It might be fixable (in the core code, not at the Camino level), but  
it would likely be a lot of work to handle something that really  
doesn't make any sense for the site to be doing anyway.

-Stuart