470887 - Confirmation or alert boxes completely disable all user input and lock the current tab.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61098

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brantley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

When a confirmation or alert box is triggered by the javascript, it locks the browser down completely.  I should still be able to close the offending tab, just because an alert box is pressed.  Spammers can lock you in to the page, completely with this tactic.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page that locks you in a confirmation loop.
2. Pull your hair out because you didn't want to close some other tab, but now you have to close them all.
Actual Results:  
Hulk Smash

Expected Results:  
A closed tab.

Not sure if this is a security problem, but it should be, so marking it...

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

bug 59314 is also relevant, but bug 61098 seems the closest to the solution here.