

So the first one is blocked, and the second one is not. The difference is that Firefox treats a timeout of 2000ms or less are acceptable, but after it – removes the “trust”, assuming that now it’s “outside of the user action”. Most browsers block popups if they are called outside of user-triggered event handlers like onclick. So now most browsers try to block popups and protect the user.
Jquery popup window with form windows#
A bad page could open tons of popup windows with ads. In the past, evil sites abused popups a lot. A popup can navigate (change URL) and send messages to the opener window.So opening a popup from a third-party, non-trusted site is safe.


A popup is a separate window which has its own independent JavaScript environment.for OAuth authorization (login with Google/Facebook/…), because: Still, there are tasks where popups are still used, e.g. So, popups is not something we use everyday.Īlso, popups are tricky on mobile devices, that don’t show multiple windows simultaneously. As of now, there are other ways to do that: we can load content dynamically with fetch and show it in a dynamically generated. The initial idea was to show another content without closing the main window. Most modern browsers are configured to open url in new tabs instead of separate windows. …And it will open a new window with given URL.
