814622 - window.location.constructor throws "too much recursion" error

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPConnect, defect)

Description

[Boris Ponomarenko]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.14 Safari/537.17

Steps to reproduce:

Execut in console 
window.location.constructor


Actual results:

"too much recursion" error thrown


Expected results:

Expected something like "function String() { [native code] }"

Comment 1

[Loic]

It looks like fixed in Firefox 20, no?

[18:28:41.984] window.location.constructor
[18:28:41.988] [object Location]

Comment 2

[Ioana (away)]

Boris, can you reproduce this issue on Firefox 18?

Comment 3

[Loic]

It has been freshly fixed:

m-c
bad=2012-11-22
good=2012-11-23
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=20ec9014f220&tochange=d8e4f06198dc

Suspected bug:
Bug 808608 - Remove same-compartment Location security wrappers

Comment 4

[Boris Ponomarenko]

Currently I'm on release branch and there are no fresh updates. So the latest version I can get is 17 for now.

(In reply to Ioana Budnar [QA] from comment #2)
> Boris, can you reproduce this issue on Firefox 18?

Comment 5

[Boris Ponomarenko]

Yes, I still can reproduce it on 

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0"

(In reply to Ioana Budnar [QA] from comment #2)
> Boris, can you reproduce this issue on Firefox 18?

Comment 6

[Loic]

The fix is in Firefox 20, not 18.