Open Bug 451780 Opened 16 years ago Updated 2 years ago

nsITimer cannot be created on one thread in JS, and dispatched to another

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XPCOM
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: sdwilsh, Unassigned)

References

Details

Sadly, this makes the target attribute for JS timers useless. You end up getting an assertion about nsExceptionManager not being threadsafe. bz suggests either making the notify call not give the timer object back, or give it a proxied object back.
Blocks: 451781
Severity: normal → S3
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