[Ietab] IETab and Human initiated Javascript popups when in IE Mode

Matthew Edmundson mmortal03 at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 30 16:25:26 EST 2005


First of all, I am not a member of this mailing list, so if anyone knows the 
answer, please email me at mmortal03 at hotmail.com .

To get the most common out of the way, I have already configured Firefox to 
allow ietab popups.

Given this, my problem is that when I am viewing a website in IE Mode that 
contains Javascript popup window links, and I left click on these links, 
they are opened into a new tab instead of popping up into a new window.  
This is specifically the case for CNN.com (the "Watch" links on the front 
page).

This differs from how I have Firefox set up, which, with the following 
settings, opens these type of Javascript popup windows in a new tab ONLY if 
they have no size attributes:

browser.link.open_newwindow 3
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 2

I am going to postulate that the incongruent behavior is happening because 
when a tab is in IEMode, Firefox does not know whether or not the Javascript 
popup link has size attributes, and so is opening the link into a new tab as 
any other Javascript popup would.

It is either that, or IETab has its own link-opening logic related to popup 
window links.

Thanks in advance




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