Site makes it unable to close tab in Firefox 3

[Eric Moritz]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When going to the following URL:

http://virus-scanonline.com/nag/?aid=dogma&lid=1001&affid=150&n=nag&install=1

This malicious site prevents the tab from being closed. I have to kill the browser to stop it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 17 23:34:28 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

If its a malicious site causing this issue, then its not really a bug relating directly to Firefox.

[Eric Moritz (ericmoritz)]

I'd have to disagree. If a site is allowed to hijack the browser, that's a bug.

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

In this case, the place to address this issue would be upstream at bugzilla.mozilla.org. But realistically, malicious sites should be blocked by Firefox. Do you have this enabled in firefox?

[Eric Moritz (ericmoritz)]

I haven't done anything to disable that protection from Firefox. I know that functionality exists.

[Eric Moritz (ericmoritz)]

As for bugzilla, I submitted a report there as well, I submitted one here because this is where the menu item Help->Report a Problem sent me.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The giving site does no longer exist. Is this still an issue for you with other sites?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!