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		_fbpt on Dec 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that... This dialog seems to operates off HTTP authentication, so disabling Javascript will probably not prevent it from appearing.

fl0wenol on Dec 10, 2018 [–]

Not probably, but definitely. HTTP auth modal dialogs are a pre-Javascript feature from the earliest Netscape versions.

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