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    multiple web browsers, multiple bugs - onUnload

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    multiple web browsers, multiple bugs - onUnload


    WARNING: please open a new browser instance for it.


    Try http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt....iclan/location


    The page is SUPPOSED to prevent going to somewhere else by changing
    the URL back in onUnload (even that is already a reason to disable
    JavaScript).


    The interesting part is: depending on browser, you see different bugs.


    Konqueror: an endless loop of alert boxes, seems to have crashed GNOME
    (killing konqueror did not make GNOME usable).


    Mozilla, Netscape 7 or Firefox: almost works correctly. Except for two
    small bugs: View source shows the source of Google or where you TRIED
    to go to, while you SEE the unload-trap page. The other bug: when you
    close the browser window, onUnload is executed TWICE (you see two
    alert boxes, with the number increasing) and the new page is loaded,
    but not displayed. But the view-source bug somehow looks suspicious.
    Do other parts of Mozilla think it was another website too?


    IE (according to someone on IRC, not verified by me): seems to work
    perfectly. For one time. Sometimes it goes to google, displays Google,
    but shows the www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de URL in the location bar.
    Entering a search expression then uses the wrong domain name. Could
    perhaps be used for reading content from "foreign" web sites, didn't
    try.

    more

    it works on ie6+winxp.pro.ed with all the latest updates but i have not tested other browsers.


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    It seems little more than an annoyance.

    Web pages have control over their links anyway. If you don't want people to be able to link off your page, don't put links in.

    Of course having this Javascript prevents people from going to a different page - but they can still open a new window (Except in IE of course which by default locks new windows to the same page).

    It is quite annoying, similar on annoying-ness to the old "window.close()" thing which existed in early browsers, is now fixed in all modern ones.

    Slarty

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