385472 - window.open() doesn't work in xulrunner

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; en_US) KHTML/3.5.7 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: MOZILLA_1_9a5_RELEASE

Trying to use the window.open() javascript function in xulrunner results in an NS_ERROR_FAILURE from nsIDOMJSWindow.open:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://testcase/content/index.xhtml :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 8" data: no]

When the exception occurs, the JS console complains about

No chrome package registered for chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul

Looks like window.open() is implemented in a way that requires the navigator chrome, which isn't part of xulrunner...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use window.open() in xulrunner 1.9a5
Actual Results:  
Exception

Expected Results:  
Popup window showing the requested URL

Comment 1

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

Attachment: Simple XHTML file showing the issue

Comment 2

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

Attachment: Same testcase packaged as xpi

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Who is going to write the UI for the "popup window"? You don't have any browser chrome because you're not Firefox.

This is mostly INVALID, though we should document the ways you could add browser chrome support to your app (through the browser.chromeURL pref).