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[Eric Keppel <910448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
Release:	11.10
Installed: 11.0~a2~hg20111230r83973-0ubuntu1~umd1~oneiric

Expected Behaviour: no content movement when update restart notification
appears

Actual Behavior:
The Update Restart Notification appears at random intervals until Firefox is restarted after installation of an update.  

When it appears, it pushes the content on the page down along with it.

If a user was about to click on a particular area of the screen and the
notification happens to appear near the moment the user clicks, the
content gets pushed down by the notification and the click is registered
higher up on the content of the page than intended by the user.  This
could be very dangerous in certain scenarios, for example on a banking
or stock trading site where a single click can involve large amounts of
money where a BUY and SELL button are near one another vertically on the
page, etc..

It is my recommendation that the notification either remain on-screen
until the browser is restarted, not push page content down when it
appears, or the user be given the ability to dismiss it for the
remainder of the browser's open session.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: notification update

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Title:
  Dangerous Behavior - Update Restart Notification

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10
  Installed: 11.0~a2~hg20111230r83973-0ubuntu1~umd1~oneiric

  Expected Behaviour: no content movement when update restart
  notification appears

  Actual Behavior:
  The Update Restart Notification appears at random intervals until Firefox is restarted after installation of an update.  

  When it appears, it pushes the content on the page down along with it.

  If a user was about to click on a particular area of the screen and
  the notification happens to appear near the moment the user clicks,
  the content gets pushed down by the notification and the click is
  registered higher up on the content of the page than intended by the
  user.  This could be very dangerous in certain scenarios, for example
  on a banking or stock trading site where a single click can involve
  large amounts of money where a BUY and SELL button are near one
  another vertically on the page, etc..

  It is my recommendation that the notification either remain on-screen
  until the browser is restarted, not push page content down when it
  appears, or the user be given the ability to dismiss it for the
  remainder of the browser's open session.

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