316493 - JS: uncaught exception: permission denied to get property HTMLDocument.getElementsByTagName

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

I have used Mambo for a long time and now with 1.5 I get JS errors and can't use the editor anymore. I hate to say it, but I have to use IE now for Mambo :(

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. must login
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Actual Results:  
JS Error uncaught exception: permission denied to get property HTMLDocument.getElementsByTagName

Expected Results:  
no errors

Something seems to have changed in the javascript permissions or something. I'm just a designer, so don't know much about it only that something has changed since last release.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Could you create (or make someone else create) a testcase for this issue?

Comment 2

[tix]

Are you using frames?
Does this error happen everytime or only after you re-fresh the page?

I am getting a similar error with the page I am working on.
When I call document.domain I get "null".

Comment 3

[Tom Parker]

Relatively minimal test case (real-world example minus a few bits of cruft) is at http://tevp.net/banner/banner.htm. Works fine when run from local files, gets the specified error in Firefox 3.0 but I can't reproduce with 2.x

Comment 4

[Tom Parker]

Sorry, forgot last words...
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Gets the specified error only when run from remote system, and only on 3.0 not 2.x.

Comment 5

[Tom Parker]

Attachment: Testcase

Testcase for bug. No bug when run from local machines, and/or on Firefox 2.x. Bug only occurs with 3.x and when sourced from remote systems.

Comment 6

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I get initPage is not defined loading that link... And it seems separate from this bug, which should be resolved/incomplete.

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Tom: Could you create an even smaller testcase and file a separate bug?

Comment 8

[Tom Parker]

I was trying to create a smaller testcase, but couldn't. Then I remembered that I'm now running Minefield (other FF3 issues making nightlies a better match for me right now) and the bug appears to be resolved. I've even checked the original case that the test case came from and that's fixed as well.

Build id is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008070802 Minefield/3.1a1pre ID:2008070802

Comment 9

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

OK, thanks. If anyone still gets this error, please file a new bug with a testcase.