Closed Bug 438990 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

This site makes Fx user lose control over his browser

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.0 Branch
x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61098

People

(Reporter: mgol, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0

Site is infected with a not very severe, but annoying, threat called "not-virus:BadJoke.HTML.Ketok.a". All attempts of closing a tab containing that site fails, showing only modal (that is, blocking) javascript announcements.

The only thing one can do is to kill the Firefox app and start it again - but at next start one cannot choose an option to resume a session... Because it will start again.

Opera deals with this and allows user to close the tab (IE is also vulnerable).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.smouch.net/lol/
2. Try to close the tab, some javascript window will open.
3. Closing javascript announcement makes only Fx shows another one...
Actual Results:  
Site tab cannot be closed due to constant javascript modal windows appearing.

Expected Results:  
There are 2 possible expected scenarios:
1) Tab should close
2) Javascript announcement can appear, but with an option not allowing site to show another one (to make user able to close the tab)

This bug has a long story - Firefox 2 and 3 are vulnerable (I couldn't check previous ones), Internet Explorer also, but Opera works fine with it.
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
Summary: This site makes Fx user loose control over his browser → This site makes Fx user lose control over his browser
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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