1128124 - While running a Firefox build getting a Type:Error doc.documentElement is undefined in Readibility.js(411:0)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[shreyas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.91 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I was using the nighlty build.
In nightly build opening the site 'http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zealand-v-pakistan-2014-15/engine/match/749795.html'.
It gives the following typeError


Actual results:

It gave a typeError: doc.documentElement is undefined(Readibility.js)


Expected results:

There should have been no typeError

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I can reproduce (after setting about:config pref "reader.parse-on-load.enabled" to true).
Nightly 38.0a1 (2015-01-30)

--> Confirming.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

The line in question is:
> this._articleDir = doc.documentElement.getAttribute("dir");
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/d7e156a7a0a6/toolkit/components/reader/content/Readability.js#l411

hg blame says this line was added in bug 800188 --> adding dependency on that bug.