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Posted by Georgi Guninski on Sep 05
This is barely a DoS, but since Chrome has explicit protection
against it, we decided to disclose it.
If firefox user visits a specially crafted page, then firefox
may create many files in `~/Downloads`,
The user is notified about this in a small dialog, but there is
no option to stop the downloads.
The potential denial of service is that the user must manually
delete the created files and this might be PITA.
Technically about the PoC: create…