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When was the last time they revamped the UI? Honestly cannot remember.
they changed it this year didn't they? Weren't people making jokes that now firefox is square and chrome is round?
The bigger problem is that a authentication dialog is a window modal, which makes the entire browser inoperative. If it wasn’t for this, you could simply close the tab with the malicious site. This broader issue is reported on the bug #123913, which is 17 years old. The bug is old enough to drive.
Where I'm from it can't drive, but it's been old enough to drink for a while now !
> this issue has gone unfixed, for unknown reasons The reason is just that no-one has thought it important enough to fix, and/or no-one has been able to get sufficient agreement on what the correct fix is. Let's not pretend there's a mystery.
And yet issues that affect advertising revenue on Youtube get fixed same day.
Why does nobody target the root cause? The possibility to show popups and popovers in browsers should be removed completely. There are little to no legit uses for them. Even reputable websites use them only to nag and annoy their users. And don't get me started about Javascript. This is a plague, that causes more problems than it solves.
This is an absurd overreaction. Popovers are CSS. Just a positioned element. And both up-and-overs are "legitimately" used as modals in apps.
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Having spent a couple of years working for tech support for a large retail chain, I can confirm that this happens much more often than you might think. Non-technical users are floored the browser locking up, especially if the site starts to do something alarming like play an audio file telling them their computer is infected. If they were lucky and brought it to me in that state, I'd teach them about their task manag…
Some pretty good examples of different scammer scripts, of a wide variety, from a guy who has made a hobby out of trolling them: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw/vid...
I thought this was a solved problem in most web browsers. Just show a nonmodal dialog for popups like in safari and chrome.
But in some cases, Chrome has modal dialog popups that Firefox does not. I made a previous comment about this and you can test that behavior on a safe site like regex101.com:
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Not allowing JavaScript turns into a chore when you find out that websites break in non obvious ways. I do not want to manually enable/disable JavaScript when the browser is a means to an end for me.
Yet another reason to do it -- so that bug reports about websites not working without Javascript are taken seriously, and fixed.
Another problem is that browsers are tol complicated. Building Firefox from source requires you to have a powerful machine with multicore CPU and lot of memory and comilation would take a lot of time. This could stop people from contributing fixes.