40535 - disallow/queue alert (and window.open?) on right-click

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~dabruin/falcon3d.html uses javascript alerts to 
prevent users from looking at the source code to his site.  If the site is 
opened in a chromed window, this isn't a huge problem because users can use 
menus, but it's still annoying.  IE has a workaround: press escape after 
mousedowning, and the context menu pops up when you mouseup.  This trick 
doesn't work in Mozilla because Mozilla triggers context menus on mousedown 
instead of on mouseup.

There was another bug somewhere that wanted to disallow popup windows for some 
event.  This bug may be a duplicate of or closely related to that one.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I was thinking of bug 40005, "Option to disable windows being spawned on exit".

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Too late to do this now, marking Future.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Interestingly, Mozilla now pops up the context menu even while the alert is 
active (you have to hold down the right mouse button to see this).  I was able 
to get two modal dialogs at once using that by clicking "save as" in the 
context menu... weird.

Updating url to http://www.angelcities.com/members/jeditemple/3dcraft.html.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Updating url to http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dabruin/coolpics.html.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 14716.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This is an event problem, over to joki.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 72084, "There is no way to disable the context menu upon right-
click".

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> There was another bug somewhere that wanted to disallow popup windows for some 
> event.

Bug 92955?

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 86193, "There is no way to always open the context menu upon
right-click (oncontextmenu?)".

Comment 10

[Fabian Guisset]

there is now an option to always open the context menu (see bug 86193)

Comment 11

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 282966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk priority change, per :mdaly

Comment 13

[Anne (:annevk)]

We have sufficient features to work around this now (both preventing lots of alerts and opening the context menu anyway), but it's also no longer really a problem on the web at large.