1310432 - Status Bar Obfuscation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[nitingoplani88]

Attachment: POC.rar

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160623154057

Steps to reproduce:

1- I have an HTML File
2- Open that HTML File and observe the hyperlink google.com, hover your mouse as well
3- See the Status Bar and you will see the link where it should be redirected
4- Now, click the hyperlink and you will be redirected to another website which is not the expected website.



Actual results:

I will redirected to another website


Expected results:

It should not redirect to the external website. It should able to show the actual website

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Sites can change the target of a link, or use script to open an alternate site at any point. We do not attempt to forcefully fix this in the browser, so the current behavior is by design.