On the Policies Manager, the Popups "Allow" setting is grayed out. For most sites I visit I want allow popups. How can I use the Policies Manager to "Block" popups from particular web sites?

Thank you.

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

It's not greyed out here ???

But check Tools>Privacy> to see if "Block Popups" is checked or not - it is here, which means that you can then allow popups in PM.
If I remember correctly these settings take precedence over PM.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/14/2010 06:16PM by mhf.

no no, it shouldn't be greyed-out even if blocked in global kmeleon settings..they both read same prefs and work together so it's strange it's disabled, maybe has to do with profile write permissions, not sure

try creating a new zone in policy manager and see if popups are still blocked

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It's not greyed out here ???

But check Tools>Privacy> to see if "Block Popups" is checked or not - it is here, which means that you can then allow popups in PM.
If I remember correctly these settings take precedence over PM.

Tools > Block Popups is not selected. As I prefer to allow popups from nearly all sites that I visit, being able to block popups from only very few sites would be most convenient for me. Perhaps I will have to continue manually closing popups from those very few sites but it is by no means a deal-breaker but rather laziness on my part.:cool:

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no no, it shouldn't be greyed-out even if blocked in global kmeleon settings..they both read same prefs and work together so it's strange it's disabled, maybe has to do with profile write permissions, not sure

try creating a new zone in policy manager and see if popups are still blocked

Still "Block Popups" is disabled.

Also, "Allow Software Installation Requests" is disabled but this is fine by me.

I'll try recreating then Plicies Manager maco from the Macro Library. Maybe I just messed it up the first time around, which is very likely the case.

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

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Charlie
I'll try recreating then Plicies Manager maco from the Macro Library

Still, no go.

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

Charlie, didn't you recently have so much trouble after moving some macros from the program folder into profile folder and vice versa, because some were double afterwards? And guess the Policies Manager belongs to the more complex macros, perhaps there's just something double or such again, but no idea ;-)

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siria
Charlie, didn't you recently have so much trouble after moving some macros from the program folder into profile folder and vice versa, because some were double afterwards? And guess the Policies Manager belongs to the more complex macros, perhaps there's just something double or such again, but no idea ;-)

The earlier trouble was with the Extensions manager. I foreget what eaxactly was the problem but I had decided that my KM was more than likely corrupted somehow and I had decided to reinstall KM and start over from scratch. And since then everything has been working well, until this problem with the Policies manager. It could be that this problem with the Polocies manager had always existed and I just hadn't realized it. But this problem is for the most part a "non-problem" that I can certainly live with.

The policyman.kmm is only in the User-Defined Macro folder. Below is the cotents of the macro in the case that you might notice something wrong in it:


# K-Meleon Macros (http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=MacroLanguage)

# ------------ pending macro for ported extension----------------------------------------


policy{
$OpenURL="chrome://policymanager/content/policymanager.xul";
$ExecMacros="OpenURL_InNewWindow"; &ExecMacros_Frames;
}

policyurl{
$HOST = hostname( $URL );
setclipboard("");
$sslsecure=("https://";
$checkssl=(substr($URL,0,8)=="https://"?setclipboard($sslsecure.$HOST):setclipboard($HOST));
$OpenURL="chrome://policymanager/content/policymanager.xul";
$ExecMacros="OpenURL_InNewWindow"; &ExecMacros_Frames;
}

policylink{
$HOST = hostname( $LinkURL );
setclipboard("");
$sslsecure=("https://";
$checkssl=(substr($LinkURL,0,8)=="https://"?setclipboard($sslsecure.$HOST):setclipboard($HOST));
$OpenURL="chrome://policymanager/content/policymanager.xul";
$ExecMacros="OpenURL_InNewWindow"; &ExecMacros_Frames;
}

policy_BuildMenu{
setmenu(LinkSave,inline,policy_mode,-1);
setmenu(policy_mode,macro,"Policies Manager",policylink);
setmenu(DocumentSave,inline,policy_mod,-1);
setmenu(policy_mod,macro,"Policies Manager",policyurl);
setmenu("&Privacy",inline,policy_man,-1);
setmenu(policy_man,macro,"Policies Manager",policy);
}


$OnInit=$OnInit."policy_BuildMenu;";

# --------------------------------------
$macroModules=$macroModules."policy;";

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

I'm not using it myself, but since it works for other people on other machines, it's probably not the macro itself, or it wouldn't work anywhere.
And I just noticed completely shocked that KM16a4 produces some absolutely WEIRD error with a macro that works perfectly fine on KM154, both on my own machine!! Completely confused now too :-(

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siria
I'm not using it myself, but since it works for other people on other machines, it's probably not the macro itself, or it wouldn't work anywhere.
And I just noticed completely shocked that KM16a4 produces some absolutely WEIRD error with a macro that works perfectly fine on KM154, both on my own machine!! Completely confused now too :-(

I guess that won't really amount to much of a problem since 1.6 seems to have given way to 1.7 before it (1.6) has even gotten out of the starting gate.

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~