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Bug 312701

Summary:	IE browser zone elevation blocks Help Contents
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ed.swartz, raji, warren.paul
Version:	3.6	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Grant Gayed

2010-05-12 15:43:11 EDT

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #307991 +++

When we use Helios M6 in our office, we see security warnings for every initial use of a browser widget, every time Eclipse is run.  Maybe our company has somewhat restrictive IE security settings for our intranet?  

All of these standard features bring up an IE security warning and completely block the UI:

-- Help > Welcome (!)
-- JDT/CDT Hover help
-- Opening an *.htm file in an editor

The alert is:  "Security warning:  The current Web page is trying to open a site in your Intranet [[or Trusted sites list]].  Do you want to allow this?  // Current site: about:blank  Trusted site:  about:blank"

I've looked for other bugs mentioning this, but it seems only we are victims to it.  Everyone in our office sees this.  It seems perhaps related to <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278299>, which is why I filed it here.  

This never happened in Eclipses 3.1 through 3.5, and still doesn't.

I'm calling this "major" because it blocks the welcome page for new users.  In a clean workspace, this dialog comes up *behind* the Welcome page, and is invisible for whatever Z-ordering reasons; thus a new user will not be able to click anything on that page at all.  He can only close the view and *then* he'll see the dialog.

Further, all the confirmations for these dialogs are zapped on a new launch of Eclipse... sigh.

I tried following the guidelines here:  <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd565663%28VS.85%29.aspx> to disable the "zone elevation" warnings for local or intranet sites, and also disabling the network protection in Symantec Endpoint Protection, but it has no effect.

Comment 1 Grant Gayed

2010-05-12 15:46:14 EDT

I've created this clone of bug 307991 to separate out the Help Contents case.  I don't have a way of reproducing this case yet, but want to ensure that the fix for the other cases in bug 307991 gets in for 3.6RC1.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:37:49 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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