462496 - Loading/Executing of a local javascript script (file://) stops further rendering

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327796

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[matthias.neubauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081031 Minefield/3.1b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081031 Minefield/3.1b2pre

When opening a local html file which again loads a local javascript file using a script tag (with attribute src="A.js"), the browser stops doing anything after loading the script. I.e nothing is rendered at all after the script tag.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open local file "A.html" by starting firefox with "firefox A.html" or by entering "file://my/local/path/A.html" into the running firefox instance
2. press "OK" on the first first pop-up "INLIN" that appears
Actual Results:  
NOTHING happens after exectuting the first script tag. i.e. the page stays blank after the portion before the script tags. 

Expected Results:  
A completly rendered page, whith finale tag

* I will upload two files "A.html" and "A.js" are needed to reproduce the behavior described above.

* Same happens under Windows XP with a current Firefox 3.0.3.

Comment 1

[matthias.neubauer]

Attachment: Demo Page 'A.html'

Comment 2

[matthias.neubauer]

Attachment: Accompanying Javascript source 'A.js'

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

You are missing the script end tag

<script src="A.js" type="text/javascript">

should be

<script src="A.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

So I'm pretty sure this is invalid.

Comment 4

[matthias.neubauer]

After posting the report, I also realized that omitting the closing script tag is invalid following the official html 4.01 spec.

Note that firefox 2 accepts the page anyhow. So this is something that worked before but doesn't work anymore.