1545372 - Incorrect "Enable Notifications" prompt from website

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Push Subscriptions, defect)

Description

[Franpa_999]

Attachment: Untitled.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Visited https://www.amazingkenyans.com/2019/04/meet-man-who-hasnt-had-face-wash-in.html

Actual results:

Incorrect prompt for enabling/disallowing notifications from the website appeared. The prompt is missing a lot of details (see attached image).

Expected results:

The correct prompt with clear information to appear.

Comment 1

[Franpa_999]

The prompt is also pointing to the first/wrong browser tab.

Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Hi,

I have managed to reproduce this issue on latest FF release (66.0.3), latest Nightly build (68.0a1) using OSes Win10 and Ubuntu 18.04. The notification pop-up appears like in the photo attached here from the reporter.
On Ubuntu 18.04, if click 'Allow' a "Confirm notification" window appear with a message "Please press 'Allow' button to continue", but the window does not disappear even if click Allow button. On Win10 click once 'Allow' button, the "Confirm notification" window appear, click 'Allow' again and window disappear.

This behavior is the same in Chrome and Internet Explorer also, so I think this is a site issue, the problem is not related to the browser.
I'm going to set a component so developers can take a look at it. If this is not the right component, please feel free to move it to a more appropriate one.

Thank you for your report.

Comment 3

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2019-04-22 at 8.52.19 AM.png

Hi, thanks for filing! Alin is right—this isn't a Firefox notification prompt, it's a <div> element that's styled to look like one! The real permission prompt looks like the attached screenshot: the text is different, the arrow points to the site info button, and the pop-up overlays the address bar and bookmarks toolbar.

Sites often do this so they can pester you for permission later—if you clicked "Not Now" in the real prompt, the site wouldn't be able to ask you again. Unfortunately, since these fake prompts are part of the site, and not the browser, we can't do much about them. 🙁

Comment 4

[Franpa_999]

Yep that's the prompt I was expecting to see Lina Cambridge. I just wasn't sure if it was a browser prompt I was seeing or a fake prompt from the website and you've cleared that up for me, thanks.