In the last month or so I've been dealing with a new website behavior that Glims is in the perfect position to block. Upon clicking certain links, my Safari 3.2.1 window is rolled up into a small box (perhaps 2" x 2") in the upper-left portion of my screen, and the bookmarks bar and toolbar are gone! It's very annoying, and I never know which links are going to behave that way. After getting rid of that page (for I would NEVER allow a website to manipulate my surfing like that), if there were no other pages open when it happened, in order to return to normal window behavior I would then have to open a new page and select the Show Bookmarks Bar and Show Toolbar settings under the View menu.
Is anyone else experiencing this behavior, and did it start suddenly a week or two ago for you as it did for me?
This seems like just the kind of behavior Glims could stop by introducing a security tab that includes preferences to "Never allow a site to change the size of my browser window," and "Never allow a site to hide or show toolbars." If necessary, perhaps you could bundle those and other security settings together as behaviors that are prohibited for most websites but allowed for certain "trusted" sites that must be included in a special list through an app selection dialog.
This is the perfect opportunity for Glims to break into the provision of additional security, which ALL versions of Safari need more of. It's got to be the only major browser that offers next to NO security preferences!
SPECS: Late 2008 Unibody Aluminum 2.4 GHz Core2Duo MacBook with 4 GB of RAM running 10.5.6.
Glims
Adds features to Safari: improved search, thumbnails in search results...
Version: 1.0b23
Suddenly there's a need for a new Glims security setting
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Kudrabar Friday, May 08 2009 @ 08:33 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: YES
Comments
Workaround - Dave Heap
Uncheck the 'Always open links in a new tab' Glims Preference under Tabs section.It's even more annoying when one of these pop-up windows that has been forced into a tab decides to close not just the tab but the whole window, losing all other tabs.
Bank sites are common culprits.
I decided I'd rather live without the force-all-links-to-new-tab feature than put up with the side effects
Thursday, May 14 2009 @ 08:54 PM PDT
Give this a try... - Ptrix
it would be extremely helpful if you provided the URL of the website that happens on, so that the developers can examine it's source to isolate it's cause (and develop a solution), or so that someone (perhaps you?) could contact the webmaster regarding that site-specific issue so that their website(s) could be repaired/improved.Reply to This
Wednesday, May 13 2009 @ 05:39 AM PDT