Dom.disable window open feature.location: Difference between revisions

From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Jump to navigationJump to search
m (and now actually categorize it in Location Bar)
m (security)
Line 44: Line 44:
[[Category:Preferences]]
[[Category:Preferences]]
[[Category:Location Bar]]
[[Category:Location Bar]]
[[Category:Security and privacy-related preferences]]

Revision as of 05:42, 29 January 2006

Background

Web authors who use window.open() to create new browser windows have the option of specifying which chrome features appear on the window (menu bars, toolbars, the status bar, etc.) and what window functionality is present (whether it’s resizable, whether it has scrollbars, etc.).

Oftentimes these parameters make a popup window less useful, or even obfuscate the popup’s contents and origin. This preference allows you to ignore the part of window.open() calls that tries to hide the Location Bar.

Possible values and their effects

True

Ignore "location=no" in the window features argument of window.open() and prevent popups from hiding the Location Bar. (Default)

False

Allow popups to hide the Location Bar.

Caveats

  • Setting this value to false may make website spoofing attempts more effective. For this reason, this preference defaults to true.

First checked in

2002-06-04 by Christopher Aillon

Has an effect in

  • Mozilla Suite (all versions since 1.1 alpha)
  • Mozilla Phoenix (all versions)
  • Mozilla Firebird (all versions)
  • Mozilla Firefox (all versions)
  • SeaMonkey (all versions)

Related bugs

Related preferences