Browse should ask the user about blocked pop-ups

[manuq]

Currently Browse prevents pop-up pages, which is nice. But some of them may be desirable. For example using Gmail, if you try to open a link inside an email, a Javascript alert is shown saying that a pop-up blocker is getting in the middle (screenshot attached).

Firefox and Epiphany ask the user what to do the first time this happens, and can remember the decision for the future popups in the same host. We can use a Sugar alert for this.

The current workaround in Browse is to copy the link in the clipboard, open a new tab, and paste it in the URL entry.

[humitos]

Replying to manuq:

Firefox and Epiphany ask the user what to do the first time this happens, and can remember the decision for the future popups in the same host. We can use a Sugar alert for this.

Where should we save this information? Should it be saved globally or per session?

[humitos]

We have to use this setting:

• ​http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/WebKitWebSettings.html#WebKitWebSettings--javascript-can-open-windows-automatically

How should we manage this? I think it's annoying to click on Allow (or something like that) to allow the pop up to open every time that you click on a Gmail link, for example.

This could be enabled by default.

Epiphany does not ask to me about this behaviour :(

[humitos]

There is a bug reported about this:

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67234

I'm not sure if the version of WebKit that we are using includes this bugfix or not.

[humitos]

That bugfix was applied here:

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/94246

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 1.0 deleted