Bug 169859 - WK GTK susceptible to alert/popup loops
Summary: WK GTK susceptible to alert/popup loops
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164853
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKitGTK (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
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Reported: 2017-03-19 06:40 PDT by ManDay
Modified: 2017-03-19 06:57 PDT (History)
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Description ManDay 2017-03-19 06:40:36 PDT 
Javascript "alert"s are spawned in a manner that the user has no way of stopping it. Malicious and faulty websites thus can stick the user in an "alert loop" which can only be broken by killing the application with SIGKILL or the like.
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2017-03-19 06:57:00 PDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164853 ***