644378 - JS-created elements in newly opened popup window don't show up

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 637644

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; de) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

If you open a new empty window with window.open('', ...) and then try to add content to it's body with innerHTML, the content is created according to Firebug, but doesn't show up. It used to work in Firefox 3.6. I tried working around it with .createHTMLDocument to no avail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a new popup via javascript
2. try to add any content to it
3.
Actual Results:  
Nothing, visually.

Expected Results:  
The created content should have appeared.

Here's someone else with the same problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4897559/firefox-4-beta-wont-allow-dynamic-creation-of-elements-javascript-in-new-windo