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I clicked "Sign Up", then pressed "Cancel" on the Javascript input prompt. You cannot close the this prompt without either forcing your browser to stop creating prompts, or by providing a valid address.

Disabling my "cancel" button is not friendly behaviour at all.

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Fixed it - thanks for your feedback :)

Doesn't look fixed; I just tried it a minute ago. I almost had to kill my browser. (Frankly, I'm disappointed in my browser that it didn't detect abusive behavior from the website.)

Try Chrome - they give you an option to check a box and not allow any more popups.

So does FF (normally at least)

Yeah, it's still happening for me (Safari)

thanks for the tip about safari. I just assumed safari would follow the convention, but nope. Should be fixed now :)

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