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Firefox zero day: You can't leave this web page

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2 points by fulldecent2 · 7 comments

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MissTake

This is hardly new...

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-navigate-away-from-a-website-t...

I've always gotten around it by Long pressing the Back button and then selecting the page to go to. Bypassed your "block" as well...

This is not a big of a find that you think there is. And I'm not sure calling it a "Zero Day" is appropriate either as it doesn't exactly cause much of a problem.

  • fulldecent2OP

    That is a good workaround.

    In Chrome/Safari, this specific bug doesn't exist.

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    I don't think this is a "big" zero day. But if non-working navigation results in someone getting scammed then it might be big for them.

pwg

Also does not work with uBlockOrigin disabling javascript (either of uBlockOrigin's global block or inline script block prevents it from working).

kassner

Right click on the back button will show you a list with the previous pages. Looks like it doesn’t affect it.

politelemon

This is not a zero day, disabling the back button is a commonly employed technique on some sites.

fulldecent2OP

You can't use the back button to leave a page

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