Rickroll makes Firefox unusable

[stefanlew]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Some friends sent me a link to http://deadlyintention.com (the name says it all). Clicking on the link opens a webpage that leaves Firefox virtually unusable.

1) The window changes size and jumps from corner to corner.
2) Closing the tab or the whole window opens an alert with the lyrics.

There seems to be no way to escape except killing the Firefox process.

Opera as well as Konqueror don't show this rather annoying behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 11 23:14:49 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Prodigious Penguin (prodigiouspenguin)]

If you look in the source code of the website, that is the intended behavior of the page. If it doesn't work in Opera or Konqueror, either the site implemented their Javascript poorly or Opera/Konqueror don't execute it right.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

A web page shouldn't be able to make Firefox unusable.

[Harry Hardon (harryhardon)]

"A web page shouldn't be able to make Firefox unusable."

Uh oh, someone needs to read the new Firefox EULA again.

[Prodigious Penguin (prodigiouspenguin)]

Why is this bug still open? The website 404's and this was never a valid bug to begin with.

Marking as invalid.