260758 - [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a [nsIDOMJSWindow.open] on window.open from a dynamically created link <a>

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 253735

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

Description

[Eric Durand-Tremblay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Within the onclick of a link created with javascript/DOM  a call to window.open
fail.

Work on IE.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a simple html page with a <table>

2.  Dynamically create a link
newRow = {some tr}
var newCell = newRow.insertCell(j);
newCell.innerHTML = "<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"ShowWidow('foo.html', '_blank')\">"

3.  do window.open in link OnClick code
window.open('foo.html', '_blank');

Actual Results:  
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x804b000a [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]"  nsresult: "0x804b000a (<unknown>)"  location:
"JS frame :: http://localhost/kronosweb/js/popup.js :: ShowWindow :: line 25" 
data: no]

Expected Results:  
Popup a window

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253735 ***

Comment 2

[Vesselin Atanasov]

I also observe this problem with

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317
Firefox/1.0.2