566494 - Put the user in control of windows, never allow web sites to give you an unusable window

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

(Note: this is filed as part of the “Paper Cut” bugs — we assume that there may be multiple existing bugs on this. Please make them block this bug, and we will de-dupe if they are indeed exactly the same. Thanks!)

Whenever a web site asks to open windows without scrollbars, with no toolbar, etc, we should respect this — but make it possible to revert — e.g. turn toolbar/scrollbars back on, resize, etc.

Recommendation:
- Add a general "Restore window capabilities" (obviously not with that wording ;) menu item to the right-click menu both in content and if you right-click the window itself.
- On Mac OS X, let the "pill button" in the top right turn these capabilities back on.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Resizing was already fixed in bug 177838.