385676 - Permission denied to call method Location.toString

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

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

Description

[Jo Hermans]

On <http://www.appleinsider.com/> I'm seeing the following error-message in the console :

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Location.toString

I see this in 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
and
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070624 Minefield/3.0a6pre

(both times in safe mode and with a fresh profile).

It was reported before in bug 337057. When looking in the source code of the page, I can see that it's probably due to an error in one of the advertising scripts, but I didn't find which one. Possibly an iframe or such that tries to change the location of its parent which is refused access. If that's the case, then this bug can be closed as invalid.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Haven't seen this in a long time, so closing bug.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021104 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I see this all the time, on:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021104 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Comment 3

[Paul-Kenji Cahier]

Same issue here but with any video hosted by youtube opened through a video.google.com link.

For example: 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1510307228850790684 just to take one example.(and it breaks a good bit of the js used there)

Could this be linked to some of the recent javascript security changes?

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032005 Minefield/3.0b5pre

Comment 4

[Andrey]

to reproduce:

foo.com:

<iframe src="bar.com"></iframe>

bar.com:

<embed src="<some flash placed on bar.com">

Once flash downloaded and try initialize it throws exception
"Permission denied to call method Location.toString"

Comment 5

[Özgür Hangişi]

you can see the same problem on this link below.

http://www.itstanbul.com/haqen/

When we put flash application in the IFrame We got the same error message. If we put flash application to site directly (not in IFrame) there is no error.

The problem is occur when you integrate flash file with iframe.

Comment 7

[Takanori MATSUURA]

I also see this.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ja; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080912121829 Minefield/3.1b1pre
hg:b0aaf69e714e

So platform should be changed to "All All".

According to bug 434522, this is the problem by Adobe Flash plugin.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-561

I confirm this bug is not reproduced without Adobe Flash plugin.

I suggest to keep this bug open until Adobe fix this problem.

Comment 8

[Billy]

This is actually a popular error I'm finding. Many people say that the issue has to do with flash, however, I get the error on my website which contains no flash. I do have google ads on my website, and some people say it is the google ads that cause this error. It must have something to do with accessing scripts from other sites like google?

Comment 9

[Bo Laurent]

I hadn't seen this before, but it started to occur yesterday, when I upgraded to firefox 3.0.6 on OSX 10.5.6, intel core duo.

It occurs on some pages I am designing, which don't have any flash. It also occurs on many other pages that I encounter as I browse.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6

Comment 10

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

no activity for a while, closing.