Comments on: Better UI for blocked popups in Firefox

By: Neil's World

Neil's World — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

New features for Firefox 1.0
We were told that Firefox 1.0 would have no new features over 0.9, just bug fixes. And then three new features come along.

By: Peter Hewitt

Peter Hewitt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Under the old system when the first popup is blocked a modal dialogue box pops up and tells you about it. Obviously this requires a tiny bit more effort to get rid of (as in two clicks instead of one) but when it comes to adding to the whitelist it’s far easier.

By: mmj

mmj — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have to agree with minghong on this. I do not think this is a better UI. When I first saw it I was quite annoyed because it’s just like a popup anyway! Unlike a regular popup which has an ‘X’ allowing me to close it, I could see no way of disabling it. It is only when I clicked it that it brought up a drop-down menu allowing you to disable it – if they were aiming for usability they would have placed a button right on the toolbar that pops up saying ‘don’t show me this again’.

By: minghong

minghong — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Then we still have to choose that option once (that option is not easy to found). Not very nice I think.
This should be configurable inside Tools > Options. Just add it to the “Web Features”.

By: Hemebond

Hemebond — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Could you have a look at this page with images disabled please?

By: Peter Hewitt

Peter Hewitt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I hope there is a setting to disable this”

try looking at the picture and in particular the “don’t show this message again” option on it.

By: Boogie

Boogie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whoa, it’s cool! Be faster than Microsoft, and you’ll won. A politician of us told yesterday: not anymore true that big fishes eats small fishes. The truth now that fast fishes win, slow fishes lost. Be fast, implement cool features.

Maybe it’s not a good idea to add features, but adding really good features may be allowed and preferred. Just do it as fast as you can, because we need testing!

By: Donald Noble

Donald Noble — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As minghong said: the current system works well, why take up so much screen real estate? this makes popups more annoying again.

I hope there is a setting to disable this, and go back to the current way of doing this. If there isnt a UI pref for this, there certainly should be an about:config setting

By: thenightfly42

thenightfly42 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note that the new popup messagebar is OPTIONAL, and that the little ‘popup blocked’ icon still shows up in the statusbar, but now it is over on the right-hand side. Took me a bit to find the new position…

By: minghong

minghong — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The current popup alert is nicer… Why occupy so much space for just a popup alert? I thought the popup killer is mean to eliminate annoyance…