156346 - Enters a long loop popping up hundreds of javascript alerts

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61098

(Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Joakim Asplund]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

Opening this page causes it to enter a loop which displays more than s hundred
javascript alert after each other. The only way to stop it is clicking (or
holding enter preferably) on the OK or X button. What would happen if a site
used an infinite loop instead? Then I would have to use
Ctrl + Alt + Delete on Mozilla which would kill all open windows.

Having an option to stop execution of JavaScript on the page in the alert box
would be very nice!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to page
2.Hold enter until it stops

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine ---> Security: General

I believe this is a duplicate of bug 59314
"Alerts should be content-modal, not window-modal"

But I will let others decide -

Comment 2

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

This is a hard problem to solve, and since no data is lost, it's not a high
priority. The best solution to these sites is not to visit the site again.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Reopening to mark as a dup...

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61098 ***