575300 - strange pop-up with javascript code

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[wertx.x12]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6

javascript:while(document.location.href="javascript:alert(1)"){document.location.href="javascript:alert(1)"}
run that in Fx 3.5>
at first your browser wil freeze for a few seconds
and then you get a strange looking pop-ups
notice that if you click the first 5 pop-ups away, you can use the browser normally but with de pop-ups in the foreground



Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
http://i48.tinypic.com/e80e3a.png
http://i45.tinypic.com/wtc01w.png

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please attach a short testcase using the "add an attachment" link ?

Comment 2

[wertx.x12]

i'm new to this, so if you could explain what you mean with testcase, if you mean a poc: http://wertx12.6te.net/a.html

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Confirming with Firefox 3.6.6 on Win XP 32 bit.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

This also happens with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100629 Minefield/4.0b2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Comment 5

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Not likely to be core JS engine.

/be

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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