207111 - Clicking on a link in javascript console throws an exception

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173879

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steffen Wilberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030525 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030525 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

If you click on a link in javscript console, it displays an exception. View
Source entered this way has got Mozilla-specific menu items. Some of them do not
work. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Javascript console.
2. Look for a link in it. If you can't find one, browse to
http://java.sun.com/getjava/
3. Click on the url (not beneath it).

Actual Results:  
1. The url in the js console is not formatted like a link, e.g. blue and underlined.

2. JS console shows this exception:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getIntPref]"  nsresult:
"0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://cookie/content/cookieTasksOverlay.xul :: CookieTasksStartup :: line 84"
 data: no]

3. A View Source window opens and jumps to the line of the error (new Mozilla
feature). It has several menu items from the Mozilla version of View Source:
Menu File-New-Navigator Window, Composer Page (doesn't work), Message (my email
client opens a new message);
Menu File-Edit Page, Page Setup;
Menu Edit-Goto line, Find Previous, Find Text as you type;
Menu View-Text Zoom;
Menu Help-Release Notes, About Plug-ins, About Mozilla Firebird.

Expected Results:  
1. The url in the url console should be formatted like a link.

2. There should be no exception.

3. The View Source window entered from the js console should show the same menu
items as the normal one. They should both contain useful items such as Edit-Goto
line, Find Previous, Find Text as you type and View-Text Zoom.

Comment 1

[Erik]

Steffen, for the problem mentioned in the summary (problem 2 in your bug report)
there already exists a bug #173879.

Problem 1) can be reproduced using latest MozillaFirebird Gecko/20030526 -
though I used a different URI (hhtp://www.frankfurt-galaxy.de) to get a JS error

Problem 3) can also be reproduced using above mentioned Mozilla Firebird

To avoid confusion and to seperate different problems I'd suggest to duplicate
this one because of bug #173879 and to open two seperate bugs for the remaining
two problems!



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173879 ***

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

Bug 173879 does indeed cover problem 2. I didn't realize that it isn't limited
to opening View Source from the js console.

Problem 1) filed as bug 207403.

Problem 2) files as bug 207406.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.