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	Description • 16 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5

If I browse to http://scan4new.com/22/?uid=114 I get a fake Windows desktop which pretends to be scanning my C drive and recommends downloaing some malware.

It keeps popping up pop-ups.  It is impossible to kill all the pop-ups.
The only way to kill it is to force-kill firefox.

Making this worse is that when the pop-up is active I cannot switch to another tab - the entire UI is unresponsive until all the pop-ups are closed - which is impossible.

It seems a fundamental bug if a pop-up windows can disable the entire Firefox UI - no menus work, clicking in a tab doesn't work, closing the firefow window doesn't work.  This is unacceptable.

Another suggestion:  Perhaps the "Stop loading this page" button could be dual-purposed to stop an JavaScript running in the current tab/window?

Reproducible: Always

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	Mardeg
	Comment 1 • 16 years ago

fwiw, I could close that tab with Ctrl-W while hitting Enter to close the alerts.