844447 - Cache manifest, Allow button crash. Type Error: Dead object

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Glancy]

Attachment: cache.appcache

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130218103407

Steps to reproduce:

Created a web page with a manifest attribute. Used to Google Chrome to get it to run smoothly ie fixed missing files, bad spellings etc until all 179 odd files work right.
I then cleared the cache and checked "offline data" and then reloaded my page into the Firefox V19 browser.


Actual results:

A banner appears at the top saying:"This website is asking to store local data..". It shows three buttons, "Allow", "Never" and "Not Now". The Allow button never works the first time you load the page. You have to click "Not Yet" at least once before it starts working. All you get when you click Allow is an error in the console "Type error: Cannot access dead object". The banner stays where it is when you click Allow. Once you click "Not Yet" the banner hides and you can reload the page and click Allow and it works.
There is zero indication from Firefox to indicate what it's issue it.



Expected results:

It should have hid the banner and cached the current page the first time you load it.

I have attempted to narrow down what the issue is by removing html and scripts until it starts working but it seems unrelated to anything in particular. Very difficult to see what the issue but I got a vague impression that it dislikes meta tags and inline script tags.

Comment 1

[Ben Glancy]

I have set up a LIVE example here
https://www.thepageuk.com/index.php/actorhome_cv/cachetest/272

My Ubuntu firefox throws up the banner that has a broken "Allow" button.

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I can confirm this on the Linux nightly as well. Probably a frontend problem.

Comment 3

[Ben Glancy]

I have had it tested on the MAC OS also, and was told the banner sits there. But works the second time around