1286928 - Twitter composer broken: "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: expected ',' or ']' after array element at line 1 column 229377 of the JSON data"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: JavaScript: Standard Library, defect)

Description

[Morgan Phillips [:mrrrgn]]

Attachment: twbroken.gif

The twitter composer isn't functioning properly in FireFox Developer edition. In Dev edition there is an error which doesn't occur in other browsers/versions:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: expected ',' or ']' after array element at line 1 column 229377 of the JSON data

Steps to recreate:

1.) Log into twitter.com
2.) Click on the tweet button in the upper right-hand corner of the home page.
3.) Click on the camera icon on the bottom left of the composer popup (to attach an image).
Expected behavior:

A file selection dialogue.

Actual behavior:

Nothing happens.

Attaching a gif of the problem.

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Overholt and I just tested and this seems to be working now (on Windows and OSX).