359467 - window.open() without URL does not create a document when it creates a tab (rather that a window)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Make sure you have "New pages should open in:" set to "A new tab" (Tools > Options > Tabs).

2. 
javascript:d=open().document; void d.body.appendChild(d.createTextNode("PASS"));

Result: a blank, gray tab opens.

Expected: the new tab should have a white background and the text "PASS".

This works fine if the bookmarklet opens a new window instead of a new tab.

As a result, many bookmarklets that open new windows and populate them using DOM 2 are broken for users who make window.open() open tabs instead.

Bookmarklets frequently don't pass "about:blank" because some versions of Opera don't like "about:blank" or to conserve space in order to work in IE 6 (which limits bookmarklets to about 500 characters).

This happens in today's trunk build trunk and in Firefox 2.  It also happens in a Firefox 1.5.0.x branch nightly from a few days ago (which has different prefs and slightly different behavior).  So it's not a recent trunk-only regression.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 2

[Pablo]

Hello! I have tried to reproduce the issue with the latest versions of Firefox 93.0 on windows 10
Marking this as Resolved > Worksforme since the issue no longer is reproducible.