Comments on: Firefox popup blocking http://inodes.org/blog/2008/06/20/firefox-popup-blocking/ Moo - Development, Trouble-shooting and Random thoughts... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:22:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: hardy.dropblog - Why destination-based popup blocking fails http://inodes.org/blog/2008/06/20/firefox-popup-blocking/#comment-2432 hardy.dropblog - Why destination-based popup blocking fails Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:23:09 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=75#comment-2432 [...] mused about having firefox allow popups based on destination, rather than source. Here’s why it’s a [...] [...] mused about having firefox allow popups based on destination, rather than source. Here’s why it’s a [...]

]]> By: Marty http://inodes.org/blog/2008/06/20/firefox-popup-blocking/#comment-2431 Marty Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:11:25 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=75#comment-2431 You'd want to have it both ways I think. You'd still want to allow sites you trust to have their way with your browser. Another example for "destination allowing" is the webmail provided by GMX.de. You have to allow popups in order to see attachments but that means you've opened yourself up to their ads as well (triggered by unrelated "on-click" events. argh!). Making that work would require full path matching though. You’d want to have it both ways I think. You’d still want to allow sites you trust to have their way with your browser.

Another example for “destination allowing” is the webmail provided by GMX.de. You have to allow popups in order to see attachments but that means you’ve opened yourself up to their ads as well (triggered by unrelated “on-click” events. argh!). Making that work would require full path matching though.

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