309592 - javascript:prompt() doesn't work in bookmarklets

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[ittayd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

a bookmarklet that used to work in ff 1.0.6 now doesn't.

the bookmarks eases working with bugzilla by enabling me to quickly assign a bug
to someone. it prompts for the login name of the assignee, then creates a
default comment, changes the radio button and puts in the login@mycompany and
submits.

it gets the login name via the 'prompt' function.

now, the prompt function doesn't run (i don't get a prompt window) and returns
an empty string (not null, since my code checks for null, to allow cancel).

i would happily sumbit the bookmarklet's code, but because of another bug i
can't open it for editing. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[ittayd]

i have other bookmarklets (e.g., for viewing files in viewcvs) that use
'prompt()' and don't work now.

Comment 2

[ittayd]

cased by the 'add bookmark here' extension (which i've probably enabled by using
the nightly tester)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Glad you figured it out.  You might want to talk to the author of "Add bookmark
here" in case he/she didn't know about the problem.  I'm curious what in the
extension broke prompt() in bookmarklets, and whether it was a bug in the
extension or a bug in Firefox triggered by the extension.