Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
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Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#2You can't use the back button to leave a page
Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#3This is hardly new...
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-navigate-away-from-a-website-t...
I've always gotten around it by Long pressing the Back button and then selecting the page to go to. Bypassed your "block" as well...
This is not a big of a find that you think there is. And I'm not sure calling it a "Zero Day" is appropriate either as it doesn't exactly cause much of a problem.
Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#4This is not a zero day, disabling the back button is a commonly employed technique on some sites.
Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#5Right click on the back button will show you a list with the previous pages. Looks like it doesn’t affect it.
Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#6Also does not work with uBlockOrigin disabling javascript (either of uBlockOrigin's global block or inline script block prevents it from working).
Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#7This is not a zero day, disabling the back button is a commonly employed technique on some sites.
And each of them are a vulnerability.
This one here is not affected in Chrome
Re: Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page
#8This is hardly new... https://lifehacker.com/how-to-navigate-away-from-a-website-t... I've always gotten around it by Long pressing the Back button and then selecting the page to go to. Bypassed your "block" as well... This is not a big of a find that you think there is. And I'm not sure calling it a "Zero Day" is appropriate either as it doesn't exactly cause much of a problem.
That is a good workaround.
In Chrome/Safari, this specific bug doesn't exist.
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I don't think this is a "big" zero day. But if non-working navigation results in someone getting scammed then it might be big for them.