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<ManDay> Shouldn't webkit/epiphany have a popup-spam protection of some sorts? I'm filling out an online form at ESA which was apparently written by some genious web-designer... once you enter more than 60 characters in the field "Education : Major Subjects" you are stuck in an infinite alert() loop
<ManDay> http://appform.esa.int/was-html/VNApplicationForm.htm?VN=ESA/YG-ESTEC(2016)063
<ManDay> (same happens for firefox, but there the javascript cannot be intercepted in the debugger, either, which is why i tried epiphany)
Indeed. It seems that if a page starts creating javascript alert() notifications without stopping the only solution is to *kill* the *whole* browser.
Is not even possible to close the bad tab :(
I found this old related bug https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17560
Not sure if is viable to implement this protection on webkitgtk+ itself. But that would be ideal.
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title="NEW - [GTK] JavaScript alert() DOS protection"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165032">165032</a>
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<td>[GTK] JavaScript alert() DOS protection
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<td>Unclassified
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<td>WebKit
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<td>WebKit Nightly Build
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<td>WebKit Gtk
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<td>webkit-unassigned@lists.webkit.org
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<td>clopez@igalia.com
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<ManDay> Shouldn't webkit/epiphany have a popup-spam protection of some sorts? I'm filling out an online form at ESA which was apparently written by some genious web-designer... once you enter more than 60 characters in the field "Education : Major Subjects" you are stuck in an infinite alert() loop
<ManDay> <a href="http://appform.esa.int/was-html/VNApplicationForm.htm?VN=ESA/YG-ESTEC(2016)063">http://appform.esa.int/was-html/VNApplicationForm.htm?VN=ESA/YG-ESTEC(2016)063</a>
<ManDay> (same happens for firefox, but there the javascript cannot be intercepted in the debugger, either, which is why i tried epiphany)
Indeed. It seems that if a page starts creating javascript alert() notifications without stopping the only solution is to *kill* the *whole* browser.
Is not even possible to close the bad tab :(
I found this old related bug <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
title="UNCONFIRMED - Repeated JavaScript alerts block user interaction with application"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=17560">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17560</a>
Not sure if is viable to implement this protection on webkitgtk+ itself. But that would be ideal.</pre>
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