310074 - user-requested popup windows sometimes do not open when clicking on link using Javascript to open new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 309775

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jennifer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Sometimes, when clicking on a link that uses JavaScript to open a new window,
the new window never opens even though the browser seems to be accepting the
click. Usually, restarting the browser will repair the problem and new windows
once again are openable.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on link using JS to open new window

Actual Results:  
Nothing; linked text is selected/highlighted

Expected Results:  
Selected/highlighted linked text and opened new window

Comment 1

[Jennifer]

Update: I now have a link this happened on, just now:

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.0954-7894.2002.01313.x

(click "PDF" - you may not see this button if you aren't on the campus of a
university subscribing to this journal; it should launch a window containing a
PDF document)

Comment 2

[Jennifer]

Sorry for the spam. Caught the JavaScript Console messages this time:

Error: linkHref has no properties
Source File: chrome://disabletarget/content/disabletargetOverlay.js
Line: 125

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
http://youngwizards.net/groupee_common/jscript/eve_constructor.js :: sizePopup
:: line 710"  data: no]

And no window opens, so I can't reply without restarting Firefox. *sigh*

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050925
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092523

The link PDF goes to this url:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.0954-7894.2002.01313.x

Comment 4

[Jennifer]

> The link PDF goes to this url:
> http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.0954-7894.2002.01313.x

Yup, that is the correct link. Restarting got me the file. I'm about to try a
nightly here, see if that will fix it. It's annoying because it's so
intermittent ...

Comment 5

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 309978 (+ bug 309775, bug 309170, Core bug
177819 and/or Thunderbird bug 290924)?

Comment 6

[Robert Ames]

REPORTER, please mark as duplicate of bug 309775

Comment 7

[Jennifer]

Sure, thanks for the reference. I hope this works ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309775 ***