1155834 - way to disable onmousedown() event handlers when link is valid

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257307

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

Description

[scientes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150416030209

Steps to reproduce:

Go to https://www.google.com/?q=mozilla+bugzilla

Click link to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/


Actual results:

Google redirect (I don't copy link cause it looks like it has private information)


Expected results:

goes to the link that is in the href and context menu

similar, but differn't is when the content of the link is a valid uri <a href="redirect>http://foo.example/</a>, for example youtube's external link interstitial

This is a potential phishing issue, when the UI indicates one destination, and you go somewhere else.

Comment 1

[scientes]

The correct solution would be the ping attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

Comment 2

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

I'm going to mark this bug as duplicate of Bug 257307.