Comment 15 for bug 23632

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Alan Tam (at) wrote :

Why do we honour request for opening a new window (by window.open()) without
menubar, urlbar, statusbar, etc? I don't think these are not features "most
users find useful". Do my browser obey me? How many phishing problems caused by
this feature have we fixed between FF0.9 and FF1.0? If I am the judge, I will
stick to the rule of common law - allow it unless it is guilty, beyond
reasonable doubt.

If you find the discussion here not fruitful, so do I. That's why I insisted
that we should discuss it upstream. I didn't send this to ubuntu-devel, since I
don't think I have the time to monitor the discussion there, without the
bugzilla-like alert features. If you like, you can still post there.

Personally I am not so interested in the result of the discussion. However,
Ubuntu itself is interested, especially when it wants to position itself as the
only distribution which has this feature "disabled" (or enabled, as you like),
and it has to accept its own marketing consequence being commented "Web 2.0
unfriendly".