781805 - window.location changes URL to absolute path

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[obrufau]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

If you do window.location=something (such as window.location='google.com'), or window.location.replace() with one or two arguments (such as window.location.replace('google.com','abc'))


Actual results:

The location bar shows an strange URL, which I guess is the absolute path in my computer:
jar:file:///C:/Archivos de programa/Mozilla Firefox/Firefox 14/omni.ja!/chrome/browser/content/browser/google.com

Additional data:
->I have Firefox installed on C:\Archivos de programa\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox 14\
->"google.com" at the end of the URL is the first argument of window.location.replace(), or the string "something" in window.location=something.

Moreover, with window.location.replace(), you can't go back to the page you were.

Comment 1

[obrufau]

Fixed on Firefox 15 beta

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please provide a testcase.
Aren't you missing the protocol e.g. http://google.com ?

Comment 3

[obrufau]

If I do it from a <script> it works well and there isn't any bug:
for example, in http://localhost/bug.htm:
   <script type="text/javascript">
   //<![CDATA[
   "use strict";
   window.location='abc';
   //]]>
   </script>
It redirects to http://localhost/abc

But if I load http://localhost/bug.htm (without redirection script), open the console or scratchpad and enter...
   window.location='abc';

... it redirects me to
   jar:file:///C:/Archivos%20de%20programa/Mozilla%20Firefox/Firefox%2014/omni.ja!/chrome/browser/content/browser/abc

So I can't provide a testcase.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

window.location='abc'; is a relative URL and the absolute URL based on your current location (sratchpad) is the result that you get.

Comment 5

[obrufau]

Well, but I think it should be interpreted as a relative URL based on the current page, even if the script is executed from console/scratchpad instead of the page.

But If you think that it shouldn't, then the bug is that Firefox 15 interpretes it like I want...

Comment 6

[obrufau]

Attachment: Screenshot of the error

Comment 7

[obrufau]

Attachment: Screnshot of the bug 2

Curiously, if I do window.location='', Firefox loads itself into current tab... weird

Comment 8

[obrufau]

Fixed on Firefox 15 beta