93930 - Use more secure window titles for JavaScript alert/confirm/prompt dialogs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 31573

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Skewer]

Expected: JavaScript alert, confirm, and prompt windows should have a title to
separate them from system or application messages. For example, a prompt window
might read "JavaScript Prompt" or, similar to Communicator, "JavaScript Prompt
[www.hostname.com]"

Actual: JavaScript windows use misleading titles, which merely read "Alert,"
"Confirm," and "Prompt." An inexperienced user might be tricked into entering a
password into one of these dialogs, especially if they also use Mozilla to read
e-mail or newsgroups.

I personally think that if the title is handled well enough, it is not necessary
and might even be cumbersome to add an extra line to the dialog text like IE
does with prompts.

Build: 2001080508 Win98

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

chris, should this go to one of your js/security components, or stay in xp apps?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Javascript alerts, confirms should be marked as such"

See also bug 64676

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31573 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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