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Following my last complaint about Mozilla, I did install Firefox, but I was using Mozilla for the following story: Today I had opened a tab to a site that annoys me because it uses JavaScript to make the prompt jump to the login field like a hyperactive puppy, meaning that I often end up typing my password in the login field because the page hasn't finished wiggling. I expect this now, and just let it sit for a while before trying to use it. I opened another tab and was typing in a URL. For some reason the URL wasn't appearing; I assumed the browser was occupied with the other tab, as Mozilla sometimes has difficulty with multiple active tabs. I kept typing, and hit enter...and noticed the title of the annoying site change to the 'wrong password' page. The first tab's JavaScript had managed to claim focus from the URI bar of the second tab, and my URL had been entered as the login name. This really makes me wonder exactly how much power JavaScript has to affect the other tabs. It reminds me why I usually keep JavaScript off, too. Evil and wrong.
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