Popups in forum

Organisation Forum
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Back in December I commented about Firefox’s popup blocker being invoked by the forum. (See Temperature sensing - #19 by djh )

I’ve just noticed that a post in a recent thread does the same (See Optical sensor reverse reading - #16 by Robert.Wall )

The common factor in both cases seems to be that Robert has posted a link to another post on the forum in a ‘clever’ format that shows part of the text of the post and allows you to expand it to see the whole post. The problem occurs if you middle-click on the thread title of the link, to open the thread in another tab. Then the link tries to open a popup for some reason and Firefox activates its popup blocker and stops it.

Code that intercepts my mouse clicks and changes them to cause popups is very badly behaved IMHO.

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That format was automatically applied by Discourse (the forum software). I did nothing special. I can suggest two courses of action: whitelist openenergymonitor.org in your pop-up blocker, or ask on the Discourse forum.

I use Opera browser and I have pop-ups blocked, but see nothing unusual. The linked thread opens in the same window for me.

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Who ? :grin:

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D’Oh :cry:

[For anybody who can’t understand, I’d put openenergy.org]

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FIFY, Robert :wink:

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Paul could & should have done. I thought I’d made it clear that my typos CAN be corrected.

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Yep. My screwup. That’s what I get for not paying attention to what the hell I’m doing. :frowning_face:
Tie that dog to the yardarm and give 'im 20 lashes! 20_lashes

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Using chrome here, popups also blocked.
Middle click on the link correctly opens in a new tab here.

Does it only happen with Firefox? If so, I agree with Robert:

Which you can find at https://meta.discourse.org/
I found this post there on reporting bugs: https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-bug-reports-for-discourse/33070