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by owenjonesuk 3272 days ago
Firefox implemented something a few years ago where buttons on pop-ups were greyed out for a few seconds, to avoid this. I believe it was a security concern that an online game could get you to click in a certain place at a certain time, and make a pop-up just before it asking for permission to do something, so you clicked Accept without meaning to.
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They also have something like this on the download dialog, where the accept button stays gray unless the dialog has focus.