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Starred by 1 user
Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 456
Owner: ----
Closed: Sep 2016
Cc:
█ krajshree@chromium.org
a...@chromium.org
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OS: Linux
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Modal popups are blocking access to the task manager.

Reported by shent...@gmail.com, Sep 14 2016 
Chrome Version       : 53.0.2785.101 (Official Build) (64-bit)
URLs (if applicable) : http://north.southeastwest.win/li1n/index.html (DO NOT CLICK)
Other browsers tested:
  Add OK or FAIL, along with the version, after other browsers where you
have tested this issue:
     Safari: haven't tried
    Firefox: haven't tried
         IE: haven't tried

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Visit a site that produces malicious popups
(2) Get spammed
(3) Try to call up the task manager

What is the expected result?

I can right click on the title bar of chrome, open the task manager, and force-close the offending tab.

What happens instead?

The popup steals the mouse focus and enters a "sorcerer's apprentice" mode that rabbits out of control.

I had to use a top-like process manager to kill the tab.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456 is related but I can't comment on it.

Comment 1 by shent...@gmail.com, Sep 14 2016 

Screenshot demonstrating the issue.

Attempting to right click on the spot indicated by the green dot causes the big bad popup to "bounce" up a bit and the click meant to call up the task manager gets stolen by the popup.
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Comment 2 by krajshree@chromium.org, Sep 15 2016

Cc: krajshree@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback OS-Linux
Unable to reproduce the issue on Ubuntu 14.04 using chrome reported version #53.0.2785.101 and latest canary #55.0.2860.0.
Attached a screen cast for your reference.

Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue.
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1. Navigated to url  http://north.southeastwest.win/li1n/index.html
2. Right clicked on title bar and selected task manager to force close the offending tab.
3. Observed that the task manager was able to close the offending tab as expected.

shentino@ - Could you please check this issue by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persist or not.
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Comment 3 by krajshree@chromium.org, Sep 15 2016

Components: UI>TaskManager

Comment 4 by shent...@gmail.com, Sep 15 2016 

Confirmed on a bare profile.

Btw, I'm using lxde on gentoo.

Comment 5 by creis@chromium.org, Sep 15 2016

Cc: a...@chromium.org
Avi's been working on modal popups and preventing this type of bug.

Comment 6 by a...@chromium.org, Sep 15 2016

Mergedinto: 456
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 7 by shent...@gmail.com, Sep 15 2016 

Why is  bug 456  closed to comments from people like me, btw?  This is pretty clearly an urgent issue.

Comment 8 by a...@chromium.org, Sep 15 2016 

Yes, but commenting on the bug about how urgent something is isn't helpful. We know, and I'm working on it. If you want to star the bug, do that, but the bug was getting posts that weren't technical discussion so we locked it.

Comment 9 by shent...@gmail.com, Sep 26 2016 

I would like to suggest that the solution would involve breaking each tab into its own rendering process, and more so making sure that modal dialogs are only modal to the tab.

Two tabs on different websites or even domains should not be modal to each other, and *neither should be modal to the chrome process itself* (including the task manager)
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