418101 - Google Groups can't create or edit HTML pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396644

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Allen Stenger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021704 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021704 Minefield/3.0b4pre

It is impossible to edit HTML pages in Google Groups. It appears that the page comes up in a non-editable mode: there is no toolbar of text properties, and clicking in the edit field has no effect. Numerous errors appear in the Error Console during this process.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
To test this you need to be the owner of a Google Group (they are free, at http://groups.google.com).
1. Sign in to Google Group
2. Click Pages at the right
3. Click + add new page under Pages at the right
4. Type a page name in the field "New Text Name"
5. There is no edit toolbar (bad) and clicking in the input field below "Save and Publish" has no effect. The input field should be prefilled with "Click here to enter your page's content" but is blank instead.
5. Click Save & Publish. The button highlights but otherwise there is no effect. A new page should have come up "Your page was saved & published successfully".
6. Click Pages at the right to navigate away from this edit page. A message "saving" appears, and a page "[untitled]" appears in the page list. It should have put up an alert asking whether to save.
7. Note: behavior is similar when editing an existing page that already has content.

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
see above

Here is the text of the errors that appears in the Error Console:

from Step 3:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Node cannot be used in a document other than the one in which it was created"  code: "4" nsresult: "0x80530004 (NS_ERROR_DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR)"  location: "http://groups.google.com/groups/static/release/g2_trog_edit-1772b5f8212b664fdbef4afe1a232a4e.js Line: 84"]

from Step 4 (occurs on each character typed):

Error: G2_trogdorEditor is not defined
Source File: http://groups.google.com/group/alamospug/edit/.draft-1203267894842
Line: 703

from Step 5: 

Error: G2_trogdorEditor is not defined
Source File: http://groups.google.com/group/alamospug/edit/.draft-1203267894842
Line: 583