103597 - window.open() fails before page loads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101190

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Danek Duvall]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20011007
BuildID:    20011007

My home page is a 150kB html file distilled from my bookmarks.  At the top of
the page, I have a link which points to a javascript function that opens a
handful of windows (the ones that I want to start my day off with), followed by
a window.close() (I'll attach this link).

Because of the size of the page, it takes a while to load.  If I click on this
link before the loading is complete, the window simply closes, not opening any
of the windows I wanted.  If I remove the window.close(), then I see the
javascript code in the location bar, and the main window simply has "null" in it.

Oddly, if I then view the source of that resultant page, I not only get the
source, but also the window in the window.open() call.

Am I simply abusing javascript here, or is this a real problem?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put attached link at top of large html page.
2. Load page.
3. Before page finishes loading, click on the link.

Comment 1

[Danek Duvall]

Attachment: text of link

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine --> DOM Level 0

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Danek, are you the hidden dom.disable_open_during_load pref to block pop-up 
ads?  If you are, this is a dup of bug 101190.

Comment 4

[Danek Duvall]

Yes, I do have that preference enabled; it probably is a dup.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101190 ***