website disables firefox address bar

[eskipii]

Hi,

How do I block a website from disabling firefox's address bar and File ¦ Edit ¦ View section?

thanks

[tedster]

As far as I know, the website in question must be using some kind of hack -- and to begin to defend against that, we'd need to exactly how they are hacking the user interface. Even then, it would probably be quite a painful exercise. Regular mark-up should not have this kind of access to your machine.

I personally would not visit a website that manipulates my browser in this way. Who knows what else such creative coders are trying to do to your computer!

[edited by: tedster at 6:44 am (utc) on Oct. 2, 2005]

[eskipii]

it is javascript:

WindowObjectReference = window.open('main_memberintro.asp','members','status=no,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');

is there a way of allowing javascript, but not letting it remove the address bar?

thanks

[jdMorgan]

In Firefox, open about:config

Type 'dom.disable_window' into the filter box.

Changing the values on one or more of the remaining displayed settings should eliminate the problem.

Jim