Closed Bug 1727 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

Possible security risk in default behaviour.

Categories

(MozillaClassic Graveyard :: Windows FE, enhancement, P2)

x86
Windows 95
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: willhoit, Assigned: law)

Details

At various times Mozilla will bring itself to the top and take the focus. In addition to being very confusing behaviour this has serious risks, I know for one I've been in the process of entering a password when another instance of the browser came to the top, took the focus and got some portion of my password typed at it. If this is not exploitable (that is the focus never goes to anything that can recieve my typing), it's at least annoying and should be corrected. Specifically, I don't believe Netscape should _ever_ come to the top/claim the focus even in error conditions. I notice this all the time when I have two or more browsers open, I enter the address I'd like to visit in one, switch to the other to read the page there and as soon as the other page I requested is "viewable" it comes to the top!
batch-reassigning all Garrett Blythe bugs to Don Melton
Assignee: don → law
Re-asigned to law@netscape.com. Bill, can we or should we fix this?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Not applicable in the new 5.0 browser (since there isn't one yet).
VERIFIED, MozillaClassic is dead.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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