353456 - DOMContentLoaded and document.designMode redirects to about:blank

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[James Justin Harrell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060919 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060919 Minefield/3.0a1

After refreshing a page, if a function is attached to the DOMContentLoaded event that sets document.designMode to "on", the page will be redirected to about:blank.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the testcase.
2. Edit the text a bit to see that the page is in design mode.
3. Refresh the page.
Actual Results:  
The page is forwarded to about:blank.

Expected Results:  
The page reappears as it appears when first loaded.

I've tested with a clean profile on Firefox 1.5, 2.0b2, and a Sept 19 build of 3.0. This bug is present in all of them.

Comment 1

[James Justin Harrell]

Attachment: sets designMode to "on" from DOMContentLoaded

The testcase mentioned above.

Comment 2

[James Justin Harrell]

Nightly builds of Firefox 3 aren't giving me this bug on Ubuntu 7.10, so it seems to be fixed on trunk. (Firefox 2 on Ubuntu 7.10 has this bug.)

I'd close this bug, but I don't know if there's any special rules/procedures.

Comment 3

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

Fixed.

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

No bug / patch referenced as the code fix.

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