278618 - "alert()" should be skipped when circumventing context menu disabling

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Joona Palaste]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

Some web pages use cute Javascript tricks to prevent the user from accessing the
context menu, apparently thinking all the world's MSIE. This is frequently done
by setting the "on right click" action to a Javascript alert() call. Now
Mozilla, being such a nice browser, allows the user to circumvent this.
However, when I right click a resource on such a page, I still get the
Javascript alert() call, followed by a fully functional context menu. Would it
be possible to make Mozilla skip the alert() call also?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable Javascript and forbid web pages from disabling the context menu.
2. Go to a page that disables the context menu.
3. Right click on a resource.

Actual Results:  
1. The page displays an alert whining about how saving resources is property
theft and so on.
2. I get full access to the Mozilla context menu.


Expected Results:  
Skip step 1 and go directly to step 2.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm... it may indeed make sense to prevent alert() calls in oncontextmenu
handlers when we're overriding that stuff.  jst, thoughts?

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

I personally couldn't justify adding any code for this...

Comment 3

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

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