269855 - Click event via dispatchEvent stops working in Firefox 1.0 Gecko/20041107

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[John Spurlock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

See the attached testcase (the "fake" scripting links should behave similarly to
the normal links)

The click event is correctly dispatched in mozilla 1.7.3 (Gecko/20040910) and 
firefox 0.9.3 (Gecko/20040803) and had been working in release candidates of
firefox 1.0

Now, neither case works - is this a known issue?  Thought it might be the
popup-blocker, but doesn't seem to make a difference.





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[John Spurlock]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Wladimir Palant]

Confirmed.

This scenario was one of my tests for the new popup blocker, so the bug must've
been introduced later...

Comment 3

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

This was done intentionally in bug 265176.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Yes, this is intentional, marking WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[John Spurlock]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Yes, this is intentional, marking WONTFIX.

Ok, so going forward, this will no longer be allowed?  What's the rationale?

Specifically, which gecko builds will this affect?  Is there another way to
launch a link via scripting for these affected versions?

Comment 6

[Wladimir Palant]

Bug 265176 is a security issue, that why is cannot be accessed. That means that
we won't get a rationale until after Mozilla 1.8 is released. The versions
"affected" are Firefox starting with 1.0 and Mozilla starting with 1.8a5. And it
is easy enough to trigger a link:

window.location.href = link.href;

Comment 7

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

also affected will be mozilla starting 1.7.4 or .5

Comment 8

[John Spurlock]

fair enough, thanks for the explanation