11960 - window.location.href broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 11577

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Accessing (reading) window.location.href halts JS execution.  The following
code:

dump("window.location.href is:\n");
dump(window.location.href + "\n");
dump("...done.\n");

Prints:

window.location.href is:

Tested on 1999-08-14-08-M9 linux viewer.  Simplification of problem seen in
viewer and apprunner (including on previous days).

This bug is preventing my demos from working on M9 - I think I need an absolute
URL for RDF stuff, although I'll try checking again if I can get away with a
relative one.

Will these "halts" become exceptions someday???

(I couldn't find a dup on this - I did look, and I expected to find one.)

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The disadvantages of using a build that's almost two days old... I forgot to
look for RESOLVED dups.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11577 ***

Comment 3

[Prashant Desale]

Marking verified.