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This isn't so much a call but a browser dialog that you cannot get rid of targeting safari. >This is a very irritating campaign, since when the popup appears,
by PretzelFisch 11y ago
This isn't so much a call but a browser dialog that you cannot get rid of targeting safari.
>This is a very irritating campaign, since when the popup appears, it somehow locks down the browser. You cannot quit except via force quit, and when you restart your browser it automatically restarts the lockdown. You cannot close the tab, and only force quitting again will allow Safari to realize something is wrong, and not resume the session. Which means any open tabs you have are gone.
>So it's very irritating. one of Apple's last updates to Safari was I think an attempt to stop this kind of thing. Clearly they don't have it beat just yet.
This dialog, is a large problem that the browser should solve. There is no reason for dialogs preventing the closing or leaving of a browser tab.
- arm 11y agoThe issue is that Safari pops up JavaScript alerts as a native dialog box, which can’t be ignored until it’s dismissed (since it stops you from doing anything else). A nice extension you can use for Safari that replaces the native dialog boxes for JavaScript alerts with an HTML one that’s in the page itself is JS Blocker¹. It can do much, much more than that though, but if that’s the only thing you want it to do, then just make sure that only 'Display alert messages within the webpage instead of a popup dialog' is checked² in Settings → Other → Extra Features. It should look like this³ when you’re on a webpage. ―――――― ¹ — http://jsblocker.toggleable.com http://jsblocker.toggleable.com ² — http://f.cl.ly/items/0f2o110o3V1A1w1z2p0p/jsalerts.png http://f.cl.ly/items/0f2o110o3V1A1w1z2p0p/jsalerts.png ³ — http://f.cl.ly/items/3g242r322C443G0j1O3J/jsalerts2.png http://f.cl.ly/items/3g242r322C443G0j1O3J/jsalerts2.png