242439 - submit does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242494

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040423 Firefox/0.8.0+ (JTw)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040503 Firefox/0.8.0+

the submit button does not work

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://www.planet.nl/
2.go to the top-right (login) and push on the arrow (submit button)
3.open the javascript console
Actual Results:  
2 messages in javascript console:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///C:/programmas/ff/beast/firefox/components/nsBackgroundUpdateService.js
:: anonymous :: line 252"  data: no]
Source File:
file:///C:/programmas/ff/beast/firefox/components/nsBackgroundUpdateService.js
Line: 252

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]"  nsresult:
"0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///C:/programmas/ff/beast/firefox/components/nsBackgroundUpdateService.js
:: anonymous :: line 252"  data: no]

and the submit button does nothing.
It makes no difference if login and password are filled in or not, nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
It should open the webmail page at my provider, like in all FB/FF versions I
used till now.
It still works in the unofficial branch build of 20040423 but does not work in
the 20040503 trunk build.
I don't know any date it first started because I never use trunk builds

This would prevent me from using FF because I need to access my webmail.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I found out the javascript console message had nothing to do with it.
It was gone in latest nightly,

The submit however does NOT work.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Tried seamonkey trunks
the submit is:
OK in /mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/2004-04-30-10-trunk/
broken in /mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/2004-05-01-10-trunk/

Comment 3

[Sean Kent]

This bug showed up with the 20040501 nightly build.  I am also experiencing it
at the following URL: http://mail.atl.devry.edu/servlet/webacc.  If I open the
javascript console and click the Login button I get no error messages and
nothing happens. If I click the Help button, however, the help window opens and
I get the same javascript error messages as listed above.

Comment 4

[Christopher Vendemio]

Happens for me too. Can't even use Firefox to login to bugzilla.

Comment 5

[Dan M]

Same as bug 242709. Closing as a duplicate of that one because it has a simple
test case some analysis.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242709 ***

Comment 6

[Dan M]

My mistake. The same checkin created this bug and bug 242709, but the testcases
are slightly different and the mechanism of breakage is slightly different as
well. Reopening. Note this is almost certainly the same as bug 242494 (which has
a much simpler, though still external, testcase).

Comment 7

[Dan M]

Yes, same as bug 242494. Closing in favor of that bug because it's easier to
tell what's happening in its test case.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242494 ***