446669 - location.search does can only be called successfully once on a loaded page.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[daddyj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

location.search can only be called once after page loads. Subsequent calls return and empty or null string.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to test url...http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_loc_search
2. Hit the "Edit text and try me button"
3. On the initial page load, the function call works.
4. Subsequent calls return and empty or null value
Actual Results:  
empty string

Expected Results:  
should return the querystring

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, and have not been changed for 800 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you
still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the
resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.