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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.
> 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 !
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> 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 !
Denmark?
We have no law about age of consumption but we have a law about a minimal age of buying; it has almost no sanction though and the worst you risk in spending a few hours or a night in a "drunken" cell at the police station. On the other hand we do have strong sanction for selling to someone under the legal age.
About the age of buying it used to be 16 years old but the law was changed to put it at 18 for liquors and hard alcohol back in 2009, since then most maps you can find on the internet about drinking age often put us at 18 but in reality it's still 16 for wine/beer/cider/...
The change was to fight whisky/vodka/rhum/... binge drinking by high schoolers.
(driving age is 18, or 16 is you're accompanied by an adult and passed a specific kind of driving permit)
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.
Not to defend Mozilla's inability to prioritize , but ... Isn't that a common issue across browsers? I know on iOS, I get burned by shady sites on Safari that do redirects and pop up a browser-level modal that somehow stops me from closing the tab until I turn off Javascript and restart the browser.
So I guess there's more than one way to aggressively keep the tab open.
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I also saw one with an offset custom mouse cursor so you can’t trust what you’re clicking on.
Also such sites sometimes play audio instructions trying to scare or deceive a user.
They were using Chrome. Clicking on the browser outside of the page area resulted in the tab going full screen again somehow, and they used multiple other tricks to make the page impossible to close (e.g. looping message boxes).
I don't think browser vendors take these issues very easy. But when I tell relatives to hit the escape key and it DOESN'T work, it isn't helpful.
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> Note that currently web browser developers are implementing a fullscreen mode with keyboard lock that is much harder to leave because it blocks most of system key combinations. The only keys that will still work are Ctrl + Alt + Del or holding an Esc for two seconds. And as I assume you cannot leave it using mouse or touchpad. What possible justification is there for this? Looks like this can become an ideal way to…
> What possible justification is there for this? If I had to guess, I'd say games. Browser games just refuse to die. I thought they'd die with Java applets, then with Flash, but they just keep coming back...
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Why the language of refuse? Are you inferring there is inherently something bad about games on the web?
No, that's just my opinion. One of the main reasons wouldn't like to see browser games come back is that they are usually basically 100% tied to a server. They're not like standard games, where even if the servers go down, you still have the files and can either keep playing offline or even hack together a server implementation. Once the server goes down, that game is gone[1]. Not to mention, that if an industry were…
Many very nice web based games exist, and many can be saved to disk and launched from a local html file just fine. Many games target the web browser because it's easily cross platform, requires no install, and is easy to convince new players to give it a try.
I have really been enjoying FireFox 62+ ... so fast. To hear about a long-standing bug is disappointing.
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That must be on an older iOS version? Pretty sure that on recent versions the modal dialogs are actually not modal anymore and are rendered 'in content'. So you can always close the tab.
11.2.1. But I guess in tech, that's the wild-west stone age where you couldn't expect a browser not to be taken over by a site ...
Also, websites should not be able to block browser UI unless I explicitly allow them to. In any way.
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