[Bug 14910] New: Security: Can't a web page that calls window.stop() 1000 times a second prevent a user from leaving a page?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14910

           Summary: Security: Can't a web page that calls window.stop()
                    1000 times a second prevent a user from leaving a
                    page?
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#api
                    s-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-nam
                    e
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org


Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage:
http://www.whatwg.org/C#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name
Complete:
http://www.whatwg.org/c#apis-for-creating-and-navigating-browsing-contexts-by-name

Comment:
Security: Can't a web page that calls window.stop() 1000 times a second
prevent a user from leaving a page?

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User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.10.229
Version/12.00

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Received on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 14:41:23 UTC