690997 - javascript:prompt() doesn't work in bookmarklets

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 692412

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Nielsen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:9.0a2) Gecko/20110930 Firefox/9.0a2
Build ID: 20110930042012

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked on the following bookmarklet:

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('Keywords...',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search='+escape(Qr)


Actual results:

Went to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=


Expected results:

A popup box appears asking me what page to go to.

Tested with Aurora 8.0a2, updated to 9.0a2 with no change.

Comment 1

[j.j.]

does it work with
 Qr=document.getSelection().toString();
?

Comment 2

[Adam Nielsen]

Yes that does work - looks like the JS code in the bookmarklet is too old...

Comment 3

[j.j.]

document.getSelection() returns "object" since Firefox 8, no longer "string". See bug 636512.

Comment 4

[j.j.]

BTW,  
  Qr=getSelection().toString();
would do the same.