Re: window.open in 1.5

roN wrote:

> Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> 
>> On 12/17/05 15:37, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> roN wrote:
>>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> roN wrote:
>>>>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> roN wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I recently downloaded Firefox 1.5 and recognized, that it can't
>>>>>>>> open pop-up windows, why not? It seems like javascript
>>>>>>>> 'window.open' and HTML 'target=self' wouldn't work, known issue?
>>>>>>>> Thank you for help!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not that you left the popup blocker on?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> not sure if it's a type, but it should have been target=_self
>>>>>> popup blocker off and just a typo...
>>>>>>
>>>>> Create a new profile and see if you still have the problem, this as
>>>>> sometimes old settings from previous versions of the gecko does do
>>>>> strange things (I guess thats due badly cleaned code).
>>>>>
>>>> I actually already created a new one after updating to 1.5.... :(
>>>> how do I create a clean new one, maybe i didn't do it 'clean'?
>>>> am I able to import all my password & bookmark stuff afterwards?
>>> 
>>> I was more talking about the source code clean up. If your profile is a
>>> new one created for 1.5 then it should work. Think it should be possible
>>> from the Tolls menu select "Switch profile" to create a new one. Yes,
>>> you can move things afterwards, but think you need to do that manually,
>>> just copy over the cookie-file (numeric name), password (think this too
>>> had a numeric name), "bookmarks.html". Just see to that the old one will
>>> get the name of the ones in the new profile.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  //Aho
>> 
>> Tools -> Switch profile is not available in Firefox. You have to open
>> the Profile Manager through the command line (./firefox -profilemanager).
>> 
>> Cookies are stored in cookies.txt.
>> 
>> Passwords are stored in signons.txt or *.s in an older profile. Copy
>> over key3.db and sigons.txt. If it's the *.s file, copy it over and
>> rename it to signons.txt.
> 
> Ok, thank you. if I open -profilemanager, I can see two profiles, one of
> them i created with 'firefox -CreateProfile reg' and the other is, I
> think, the one I'm working with. So should I now delete the other one? Or
> is there
> a way to choose  which profile is used?
> Thx!

Ah okay, I was able to start it with one or the other profile but everything
seems to be the same... :( do I maybe have to delete the old profile? How
to back it up? especially the bookmarks. I don't wanna lose them!
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chEErs roN

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