{"id":1593,"date":"2008-01-10T20:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2008-01-10T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:07:27","slug":"firefox-blocking-bookmarklet-pop-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/01\/10\/firefox-blocking-bookmarklet-pop-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox blocking bookmarklet pop-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made extensive use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/edit\/bookmarklet.htm\">bookmarklet<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blosxom\">Blosxom<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/edit\/wikieditish.htm\">wikieditish<\/a> plugin. Essentially it works by providing me with a piece of JavaScript that I can bookmark, and then use to pick up headlines directly for blogging.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, Firefox&#8217;s pop-up blocker seems to have an issue with such bookmarks. Not always, but about once a day it gets the idea that the wikieditish page summoned by the bookmarklet is an evil pop-up and must be blocked. And once it does this there&#8217;s no way of convincing it otherwise: all wikieditish bookmarklets will be blocked every time after that. Only shutting down and restarting Firefox corrects it, but that, needless to say, is a nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found only one <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.citebite.com\/j1n4p6l3ruwt\">reference to such behaviour<\/a> elsewhere on the net, on what looks like a Firefox developer&#8217;s page, and even that is from way back in the beginning of 2005. Apparently the issue was even worse back then, and they&#8217;ve improved it over the years, but the bug is still there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made extensive use of bookmarklet for Blosxom&#8216;s wikieditish plugin. Essentially it works by providing me with a piece of JavaScript that I can bookmark, and then use to pick up headlines directly for blogging. The trouble is, Firefox&#8217;s pop-up blocker seems to have an issue with such bookmarks. Not always, but about once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,28],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bugsglitches","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}