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

by fulldecent2 on 8/16/24, 6:23 PM with 7 comments

• by MissTake on 8/16/24, 6:31 PM

  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.

• by pwg on 8/16/24, 6:55 PM

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

• by kassner on 8/16/24, 6:51 PM

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

• by politelemon on 8/16/24, 6:36 PM

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

• by fulldecent2 on 8/16/24, 6:23 PM

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