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politician on June 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're a...

A suggestion to browser vendors: add a key combo that will turn all of the screen real estate managed by your browser into yellow diagonal stripes.

Then we just have to educate users to press this panic button whenever something that looks like a popup is on screen. If it's a real popup, it'll do the modal flash thing; otherwise the browser -- and everything in it -- turns yellow.

simonbrown on June 29, 2012 [–]

Or just tell them to switch tabs. Another sign is that if a dialog was actually showing, the browser window wouldn't look focussed.

e.g. on Windows the browser looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/nbn9K.png

instead of this:

http://i.imgur.com/7F3FD.png

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