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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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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <td>Unspecified
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          <td>WebKit Gtk
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          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <td>clopez&#64;igalia.com
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&lt;ManDay&gt; 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 &quot;Education : Major Subjects&quot; you are stuck in an infinite alert() loop
&lt;ManDay&gt; <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>
&lt;ManDay&gt; (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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