675402 - Scripts attached to pages used as the contentURL property for widgets don't get executed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Someone on the AMO forums is saying that scripts that are directly part of a page that's being used as a contentURL for a widget aren't being executed.

From the widget documentation, it sounds like content JS should be loaded and run before anything else happens:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/1.0/packages/addon-kit/docs/widget.html

>  "end": load content scripts once all the 
>  content (DOM, JS, CSS, images) for the 
>  widget has been loaded, at the time the 
>  window.onload event fires
>  
>  This property is optional and defaults to "end".

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Wes: have you been able to reproduce the problem, and do you happen to have any sample code or steps to reproduce?

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Wes: have you been able to reproduce the problem, and do you happen to have
> any sample code or steps to reproduce?

I just tried to test it with this addon I wrote, but both the onclick and onload handler are working for me... https://builder.addons.mozilla.org/addon/1012572/latest/

Maybe the actual contentURL needs to be hosted remotely? That add-on uses an html file included in the add-on...

I'll ask on the forum to see what specifically the user is doing.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Wes: any update on whether or not you've been able to confirm this?

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Okay, I have no idea what's going on. 

In my main profile (running in the current Nightly), my test addon mentioned in comment 2 works just fine.

Using a new profile, I started up Firefox 6 and tried my addon. It didn't work, just like the forum poster says.

I switched to Firefox 7 and tried my addon. Still not working.

Same for Firefox 8.

And when I used the new profile in a Nightly build, it also does NOT work.

So something in my main profile has been changed from non-default settings to make it work, I guess.

Comment 5

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

But now in my standalone 64-bit profile, it works on the 64-bit Nightly...
I am so confused.

Comment 6

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Irakli, any ideas here?

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

When Australis lands widget will be deprecated so we won't be working on this.