117366 - Page gives Javascript Exception since 0.9.7

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Jesse Houwing]

I made a sidebar that uses a piece of javascript from another site to display
newsitems in the sidebar. It worked like a charm until 0.9.7 came along.

Now I get the following errormessages:

Error: headlines5 is not defined
Source File:
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Tweakers.net/tweakerssidebar.html
Line: 128

Error: datum is not defined
Source File:
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Tweakers.net/tweakerssidebar.html
Line: 137

And this one when chosing settings -> about

Error: redeclaration of const hide
Source File: chrome://wallet/content/walletOverlay.js
Line: 1

The newsitems are no longer displayed in 0.9.7. downgrading to 0.9.6 fixes it.

I tried the trunk build of december 28th, it won't function there either.

I checked in windows NT 4, no problems, but in windows 2000 sp2 it doesn't.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Confirming using Mozilla trunk binaries 20011227xx on WinNT, Linux.
OS : Win2K ---> All. I am seeing errors like this in the JS Console: 


Error: [Exception... "'JavaScript component does not have a method named: 
"getHelperForLanguage"' when calling method: 
[nsIClassInfo::getHelperForLanguage]"  nsresult: "0x80570030 
(NS_ERROR_XPC_JSOBJECT_HAS_NO_FUNCTION_NAMED)"  location: "JS frame :: 
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Tweakers.net/tweakerssi
debar.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 76"  data: no]
Source File: 
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Tweakers.net/tweakerssi
debar.html
Line: 76


Error: [Exception... "'JavaScript component does not have a method named: 
"getInterfaces"' when calling method: [nsIClassInfo::getInterfaces]"  nsresult: 
"0x80570030 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JSOBJECT_HAS_NO_FUNCTION_NAMED)"  location: "JS frame 
:: 
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Tweakers.net/tweakerssi
debar.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 76"  data: no]
Source File: 
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Tweakers.net/tweakerssi
debar.html
Line: 76


These are just like the errors in bug 114981 and bug 105814 , both marked
as duplicates of bug 99808.  Reassigning to Sidebar component for final
disposition -

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99808 ***

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

A question remains: why did it work before 0.9.7? bug 99808 was there before
0.9.7 as well...

Comment 4

[Jesse Houwing]

I checked with the other bugs and these errors don't look anything like the ones
they're getting.... This is a different bug...

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

This error is separate and already reported in bug 112908:
Error: redeclaration of const hide
Source File: chrome://wallet/content/walletOverlay.js
Line: 1

I cannot reproduce the errors mentioned in a mozilla trunk 2001010203 build.
(*) Error: headlines5 is not defined
(*) Error: datum is not defined

Please advise if there are additional conditions or steps to reproduce this
behavior.  At any rate, I don't believe this is a sidebar problem.

Comment 6

[Jesse Houwing]

It could be the host the pages are on... I have anotherone up there that
suddenly stopped working (at least all js and stylesheets won't get included
anymore)

http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/deja.utwente/dejasidebar.html

is the url.

Maybe this can help.

The strange thing is my 3rd sidebar that is also hosted there doesn't give an
error, but uses much the same functionality...

http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.houwing/mozilla/sidebar/Validators/validatorssidebar.html

Comment 7

[Jesse Houwing]

Reinstalled mozilal, cleaned my profile from anything that saves any state, all
to no avail. But now I have copied all to a new profile, and the problem goes
away.... very strange.... But I still have to copy some of the additional prefs.

Comment 8

[Jesse Houwing]

Just checked in a complete new profile, copied all my personal prefs, all the
mail and such and it won't happen again. Marking Worksforme....

(Tried on a different system with installations of various old nightlies after
eachother and the 29 december -> 30 december (win32-sea) and then this problem
occures, but I don't see anything that causes it.

Comment 9

[sujay]

verified.