275338 - dispatching a "click" event on a <a> link doesn't navigate to the target page anymore

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Henning Pingel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Mnenhy/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

The javascript within the provided example-html-page simulates a click on a link
in this page through javascript. This brings up an alert box at page onLoad. 

It works within the following tested browser releases:
1) Mozilla 1.4
2) Mozilla 1.7.2
3) Firefox Preview Release 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10)

It does not work within:
1) Firefox 10rc1
2) Firefox 10rc2
3) Firefox 1.0 

Nothing happens here and no javascript error is displayed within the console.

The same problem was discussed by others here:
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&selm=a75eeba1.0411201754.41b80460%40posting.google.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Display the attached html page.

Actual Results:  
If the error occurs there should not be a javascript alert box coming up
automatically.

Expected Results:  
Because there is a body onLoad event the function click should have opened an js
alert box.

Comment 1

[Henning Pingel]

Attachment: Use this file to reproduce error.

Comment 2

[Henning Pingel]

Error also occurs in Mozilla 1.7.5.

Comment 3

[Ben Basson]

Requesting blocking since this is causing me problems with my rewrite of the
Image Toolbar extension.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Attachment: updated testcase

As Neil said in the referenced newsgroup thread: "the navigation may have been
disabled because of concerns about popup blocking. If you just want to ensure
the navigation occurs you can of course use window.location =
linkElement.href;"

The event handling part is okay, as you can see from updated testcase.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

updating summary, my build is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050412 Firefox/1.0+

please confirm/deny that *this* is your true problem.

Comment 6

[Ben Basson]

Apologies, you're right that this is not my issue... I guess the bad summary
caught me out. Your new testcase WFM, so I'll figure out what's going on and
post that to the forum thread. Thanks.

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Note that it's still interesting to know whether it's a regression on my testcase.

Comment 8

[/\/\arcio Galli]

bug 265176 was the actual reference caused this right?  I wonder if we can have a workaround for XUL apps. 

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updated testcase worksforme in the latest Firefox nightly build.