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One of the related tickets [1] seems to give some hints on the root cause - which in a way almost makes it worse IMO.

Basically, what they wanted to do was to build a background process that detects when you're away from the PC and then pops up the message, so it's the first thing you see what you get back.

Unfortunately (or maybe not) the detection logic had a bug, which caused the message to pop up right away sometimes, spoiling the whole thing.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835175

>>xg15+(OP)
I think it worked entirely 'correctly', and yet still annoyed the shit out of me.

>>xg15+(OP)
> what they wanted to do was to build a background process that detects when you're away from the PC and then pops up the message, so it's the first thing you see what you get back

This unnecessary bullshit is how you introduce security bugs into software. Mozilla can preach all they want about security and privacy but this shows that it's all rotten to the core.

>>xg15+(OP)
Are you sure that code is related to this? That looks specific to the new tab page while the linked bug on HN shows a random website.

>>espreh+Pz
It was linked in the "related" section of the original bug.

>>xg15+(OP)
This is terrible. I don't want their popups ever. Why do they feel they can block popups by default from others but their popups are fine?

Really hate Firefox doing this kind of thing. It's supposed to be a browser that cares about the user.