A BrowserSetting
object that can be used to enable or disable the ability of web pages to open popups in response to user actions.
The underlying value is a boolean.
By default, browsers allow web pages to open popups in response to a particular set of events: for example, click, mouseup, submit. If allowPopupsForUserEvents
is set to false
, no user events will be able to open popups. If it is set to true
, the default set of events will be allowed to open popups.
For example, suppose a web page has code like this:
window.addEventListener("click", (e) => { window.open("https://example.com","myPopup",'height=400,width=400'); });
By default, this will open a popup window. If your extension sets allowPopupsForUserEvents
to false
, then it will not open a popup, and the user will be informed that the popup was blocked.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox for Android | Opera | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | No | No | 57 | 57 | No |
Examples
Toggle the setting:
function toggleAllowPopup() { function toggle(current) { console.log(`Current value: ${current.value}`); browser.browserSettings.allowPopupsForUserEvents.set({value: !current.value}); } browser.browserSettings.allowPopupsForUserEvents.get({}).then(toggle); } browser.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(() => { toggleAllowPopup(); });