206378 - Javascript in Location bar not working

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 205989

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Soh Kam Yung]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Mozilla Firebird not executing javascript entered directly in the location bar
or put there via a bookmark keyword

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the following into the location bar:

javascript: document.location="http://www.yahoo.com/"

Actual Results:  
about:blank displayed

Expected Results:  
Mozilla Firebird loads www.yahoo.com web page

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Might be bug 205989.  But when I hit bug 205989, the previous URL is displayed
instead of a blank page.

Comment 2

[Soh Kam Yung]

Based on email with Jesse, this bug is a dup of bug 205989.  Unfortunately, I
cannot see bug 205989 (I am getting an 'access denied') so I cannot confirm and
mark this as a dup.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

From an e-mail from the reporter:

"The first time I try it, I get a page with the URL of the previous page,
subsequent retries cause the javascript to be displayed instead.  I was getting
about:blank because I opened a new tab and tried the javascript code on it
(about:blank being the url of the initial blank tab)"

I think you'll be able to see 205989 after I mark your bug as a duplicate.  In
case you can't, I'll tell you the following: the bug has a patch with review and
super-review and is pending approval for checkin (it needs approval because
Mozilla 1.4 final is soon).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205989 ***

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Don't set document.location -- just set location (once bug 205989 is fixed, both
will work, but window.location is the right property to set -- document.location
is a compatibility quirk).

/be

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact