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Re:Lets Get Arrested (2019) by ars on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:48PM (#30335220)
I wrote one of these where it moves the popup window all over the screen, and rapidly opened and closed the popup (not an alert), making it impossible to click.

I was unable to stop my own creation and had to ctrl-alt-del kill the browser - except that when I started the browser again, it went back to the last opened window.

It took a bit of work regaining control. I wish I had saved the code, although it wouldn't work today since browsers restrict window open/close these days.

Re:Lets Get Arrested (2019) by ffhhj on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:04PM (#30335496)
Really cool! In my young days I had fun with js alerts in certain forums. It's incredible modern browsers still suffer these problems. I have managed to freeze my computer with resource intensive js scripts that required a forced power off, but I never save the code of these bugs. With the latest Ubuntu my machine used to freeze when opening Gmail in Firefox, I started suspecting some kind of sabotage on Firefox, but never managed to find the actual cause.