GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 118401
Popups should optionally open in tabs
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
We all know how annoying popups can be, and they're even more annoying when they open outside of the main browser window. It would be MUCH nicer if popups were opened in a new tab instead. Many other browsers implement this quite nicely (eg, Galeon, Netcaptor, myIE2). It'd be fantastic for Epiphany to implement this.
Could you describe a use case where you wouldn't want to disallow pop-ups completely, but have them open in tabs instead? In Galeon I used that feature sometimes but I frequently found I had tabs I didn't request and still had to close them. This is: - less in-your-face than real pop-ups, but - annoying in another way because your set of tabs isn't consistent any more
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115134 ***
>Could you describe a use case where you wouldn't want to disallow pop-ups completely, but have them open in tabs instead? I don't trust automated popup killers. Fact is, there are plenty of legitimate uses for unrequested tabs to be useful. I've encountered many sites over the years that used popups effectively, where disallowing popups would have essentially made the site impossible to use. Besides, I rely on my Squid domain blocking to keep the number of popups/ads I see to a minimum. I find this to be a much more pleasing solution than simply blocking all popups.