Firefox owned by a bad joke.

[Turbo]

Binary package hint: firefox

Recently I received one of those... jokes, that makes the way through Internet.

It's a a very simple link wich arranges the code in such a way that you loose control of the affected tab and Firefox.
I mean, there is NOTHING you can do about it, except close Firefox in the hard way. If you have several tabs you
will have to reopen Firefox and faster than light, close the offending tab before it finish loading.

In this case it's all about a bad joke but I was thinking what else can be done if someone does a similar "job"
with a darker purpose. What I mean is: It's not acceptable that a web page, no matter the contents, takes full
control of a given Tab, I tried with Opera and, after several seconds "digesting" the link, it successfully allowed
to close the Tab, so it can be fixed in Firefox too. ;-) ;-)

Here goes the link, PLEASE, remember, it won't allow you to close the Tab or regain control of Firefox in no way,
not even pressing the keyboards shortcuts or clicking the menus. Changing the options for Javascript do not help
either. Also, I tried with beta 4, the new version of Firefox included in Ubuntu 8.04 and it's affected too.

I beg you all excuse me for the link's content (XXX), I'm doing this just for the sole purpose of improving the already
great quality of Firefox....

WARNING, EXPLICIT CONTENT INSIDE.

http://plastike.darkcheats.org/owned/

Best Regards,

Turbo.

My sytem: Full patched Ubuntu 7.10, Firefox version: 2.0.0.13.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 22 00:12:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux Ubuntico 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

I tried this with only one tab open. The window gets resized to a smaller size. Whenever you move the mouse into the window it will jump to another corner of your screen. The only way to close the window is to use 'kill <pid>'.

I really don't see why the far-end side should be able to resize or reposition any windows at all. Maybe it is useful to resize popups, but not the main window. The position should be set by the window manager and not by the far-end side.

[Turbo (axelhc)]

Hi again.

Before opening if you go by Edit--> Preferences --> Content and then change the
advanced options for JavaScript you will maybe avoid the resizing. What I did the
first time was manually resize the window to reduce jumping to a minimum.
In my opinion the worst part is not the jumping itself but the inability to handle
the Tab or the Menus. If the pop ups spammers find this one, just imagine the
consequences for the final users.

Regards.

Turbo.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

PLease file this upstream as a feature request there isnt much of anything we can do on our side of the package but maybe workaround but honestly it would be best if Mozilla released a feature for this. Please dont expect to see it for a while (maybe firefox 4) but even than its something that the site owner does and will always happen, we work around it once and they update thier site to change the affected parts of code. But please file a bug upstream and give us the link here. Thank you.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Remarked as confirmed for now.

[DMG46664 (danielmgerson)]

If anyone has filed a bug/feature report at mozilla let us know the number here.

The way to fix this is for firefox to have a tab control manager, the same way that the OS offers a controls to process managers.
Web apps are becoming programs and there may be legitimate reasons to control the size and positions of windows.
But what you can't do is control the position of the process manager, you should be able to open that and kill the offending tab.

(By the way, I managed to kill the offending tab because even though it jumps it's cyclical and if you manage to more or less position the mouse button over the close, it will return to that spot after 4 cycles or so).

[Turbo (axelhc)]

Hi again,

Added as a Wishlist for Firefox.

Regards.

Turbo.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:25:07AM -0000, Turbo wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Added as a Wishlist for Firefox.
>

this needs a better title ... dumping to incomplete

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

The site listed is no longer in service marking as invalid since it is no longer reproducible.