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This seems like a decent solution s compared to alternatives presented so far in throughout discussion.

Folks who browse in an edge-to-edge maximized window will still be at least somewhat-to-quite vulnerable, especially if less tech-savvy or vision impaired. I generally don't browse this way, mostly due to the relatively insane* width of displays in general these days.

Would mobile users still be vulnerable? Due to:

1. Tiny screen dimensions.

2. No option for "window" resizing. It's not even a thing.

* OT: Displays today are wide to such an extreme they tend to be too wide for my needs and tastes. Eventually it's too much like staring at the bottom 1/5th of a full-sized 4k display, which work sent me but turns out is mostly good for watching Batman, The Matrix, and other ultra-wide theatrical film releases. Granted, at this task, a 34" 1440p widescreen excels marvelously.

Surely you've heard the joke (or is it an adage?):

"With that 34" display, it can [finally] render a Java Class Name and fit it within a single line. But after the IDE and debugger open, you can only see the one line.



You can add more security features like

- the login popup could integrate with your OS so depending on your options it could pre-fill the username and password or only the username, a faked one will be forced to guess your username.

- the fake stuff always failled for me, I am using Kubuntu and all those fake popups were using a XP theme.

- because some OSs don't give you the option to customize shit anymore , in this case they would make an exception and ask you to personalize the login popup, like ask you to use an avatar img from a big list that is sorted randomly and maybe a color, anyway Apple and Google have the money to pay someone to think more then 5 minutes about this so there could be even more solutions for this permissions popups.

>With that 34" display, it can [finally] render a Java Class Name and fit it within a single line. But after the IDE and debugger open, you can only see the one line.

Don't hate long names, hate bad names.

I found a bug in our project caused by such bad short names, a good,clear name is always clear then some missleading short one or a random short string.


I'm pretty sure I could be fooled by a really good fake HTTP Basic Authentication prompt. Yeah, technically the real one is distinguishable, but it seems like it would be easy not to notice.

(here's a real one http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/foo/bar )


Interesting, Firefox made it overlap very slightly with the browser chrome, which I'd never noticed before; is that, perhaps, specifically because of this issue?




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