739387 - Aurora 13a New Tab display doesn't allow javascript bookmarks to be selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 728313

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Emily Shirley]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120324 Firefox/13.0a2
Build ID: 20120324042010

Steps to reproduce:

I use several Javascript bookmarks in my bookmarks toolbar and they no longer work in when selected on a new tab under Aurora 13a. An example of such a bookmark would be:

   javascript:x=escape(getSelection());if(!x)%7Bvoid(x=prompt('Search%20Wikipedia%20for?',''))%7D;window.location='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search='+x+'&go=Go'

They work everywhere else without problems, just not on newly opened tabs with the new New Tab display.


Actual results:

Nothing happens when a Javascript bookmark is clicked.


Expected results:

It should have opened a dialogue asking for a search term, passing that on to the site in the URL in the latter part of the contents.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Confirmed in
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ba4983d9c1f9
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120326 Firefox/14.0a1 ID:20120326031149

Comment 2

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120315 Firefox/13.0a2

Setting to new. Loading the bookmarked URL in new tab doesn't work in F13 Aurora.

Comment 3

[Brent Kelly]

Happens in Win7 + Firefox 13.0.1

Comment 4

[Colin Guthrie]

Yup, happening here too (Mageia Linux 64bit 13.0.1). I thought it was broken generally, but I now see it's only on the new tab page with the fancy common sites thingy.

I have a few js bookmarks, some for keyword searches for sites where simple %s replacements are not enough, where this can get quite annoying as it's typically on the new tab page where I use these.