409141 - TypeError: productID is null

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Maulik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

while opening the webpage at the link above, a typeError is obtained. This is not the case while using Mozilla version 2.x

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc20071218_959709.htm
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Comment 1

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Visiting that page in Firefox 2.0.0.11, I get the same popup. Furthermore, digging into the source shows that they're trying to match http://app.businessweek.com/UserComments/combo_review?action=list&style=wide&productId=null&productCode=null with |var productID = sourceLink.match(/productid=(\d+)/i);| which is returning null and causing the error. This might be INVALID (although I'm willing to be proved wrong here).

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

I'm still seeing it on trunk and Shiretoko: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090415 Minefield/3.6a1pre ID:20090415030845

and

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090416 Shiretoko/3.5b4pre ID:20090416030924


...and the following attached screenshot occurs on IE 7 as well as Safari 3.2.1 (5525.27.1)

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: Safari and IE 7 ScreenShot

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: Actual Safari and ScreenShot

Comment 5

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Since this is happening across a majority of the top browsers, I'm going to close this as Invalid.