853359 - window.location.replace with file:/// failed with code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMLocation.replace]

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools Graveyard :: Scratchpad, defect)

Description

[Mildred Ki'Lya]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130109165101

Steps to reproduce:

I ran this code in scratchpad:

    window.location.replace("file:///some/local/file.html");


Actual results:

/*
Exception: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMLocation.replace]
@10
*/


Expected results:

Change the window location to the above file:/// url

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

(like bug 784164)

Comment 3

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Actually it's not a duplicate, since I can no longer reproduce the other bug. In Nightly I get the more descriptive:

Exception: Access to 'file:///some/local/file.html' from script denied

This is almost certainly due to the sandbox we are currently using in Scratchpad to avoid polluting the content window.

Comment 4

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Bug 825039 should fix this.

Comment 5

[Brandon Benvie [:benvie]]

bug 825039 doesn't seem to have affected the result. The error seems to be the expected result though no?

Comment 6

[Brandon Benvie [:benvie]]

If you change to Environment > browser, this actually works (and totally breaks the browser, but that's expected). I'm going to call this working as intended. Content JS isn't allowed to open up files on the local filesystem for security reasons.