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by tentacleuno 1556 days ago
> reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying)

I remembered reading something about this, and it looks like it's a security feature[0].

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118077/is-the-s...

1 comments

Yeah, it's to prevent click-hijacking (correct term?). I assassed the risk as very minimal.
Click-jacking seems like the correct term. Not sure what the word would be for the keyboard type of click-jacking though, where you unexpectedly present a dialog while the user is typing and they accidentally accept it by pressing certain characters...
Usually click hijacking is contracted to clickjacking, but you're correct.