631925 - problem with javascript: FF says "function is not defined", but it exists

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 627361

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110206 Firefox/4.0b12pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110206 Firefox/4.0b12pre

Hi,
we use helpdesk application (CA service desk). Up to FF 4.0b9 works properly. FF 4.0b10 in one function says "Error: do_default is not defined". I tested also latest build (4.0b12pre, 2011-02-06) with the same result.

Function do_default also opens pop-up window. I preferences I allowed pop-up windows, allowed javascript.

I suppose, it is some javascript settings. I checked page and all javascripts are really read from the same server as the page is.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
click to link, where function is bind. For developers is hard to test, this problem I see only in mentioned application.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Does it work in the Firefox safemode ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

There is only one chance if there is no available testcase.
You have to download and test nightly builds to find the regression range. Would you do that ?

Comment 2

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No, in safe mode I disabled all add-ons, but behavior is still the same.


Test I can do (this evening). Is there any description how to do that? Or, do you mean download every night build after b9 and watch which version stop working?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can download nightly builds from here : 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/

use the comm-central ones. Download the build in the middle between b9 and b10 and start from there. You have to test only a few builds to find the 2 builds that are required for the regression range (the last working and the first broken one). Post the two "Source:build from" build revision from about:buildconfig in this bug.
An example "Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/eb35c4e6d50e"

Comment 4

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I tested versions since version 2011-01-12.

this is last working version: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2011-01-14-03-mozilla-central 

this version not worked: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2011-01-15-03-mozilla-central 

The tag, where is the problem is:
<a href="javascript:do_default(1)" class="record" onblur="blurRow(1)" onfocus="selectRow(1)" tabindex="110" id="rslnk_1_0" title="Incident #I11-164402">I11-164402</a>

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We need the build revision of those 2 builds.
Please enter about:buildconfig in Firefox URL bar and copy the build revisions from those 2 builds in this bug (as explained in comment #3. Thanks

Comment 6

[Chris Hiner]

I don't have it narrowed down to a decent test case yet, as it appears to require some of the stuff that is going on in the other frames, but it does break reliably with beta10 if I leave this line in the HTML:
<BASE TARGET="_top">
If I take that line out, or use beta9, it works ok.  I was even trying it with the following declaration right before the a href like in comment #4:
function do_default {
alert('Whee');
}

I was able to duplicate it on Windows XP and Linux.  Worked fine in both with beta9, broke on both in beta10.

If I get time tomorrow I'll try to narrow it down further to make a proper test case.  It's rather ugly with the way that Service Desk works.

Comment 7

[Chris Hiner]

Upon further searches, it looks like this is a duplicate of 627361, which has more detail.  CA Unicenter is the old name for what is now CA Service Desk.

Comment 8

[George Carstoiu]

Considering Comment 7, setting as duplicate.