879156 - "javascript:" URLs in address bar are not executed, even when browser.urlbar.filter.javascript is false

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Tyler Freeman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

This bug is in both Mobile and Desktop versions:

1. Go to about:config
2. Change "browser.urlbar.filter.javascript" to false.
3. Type "javascript:alert('hi')" in the URL address bar.


Actual results:

Nothing.


Expected results:

An alert saying "hi" should pop up. This is the only way to debug/fix misbehaving sites, since there's no console or working Firebug/Greasemonkey extension on mobile.

I would like it to turn off the annoying bar in an autoplaying Google Presentation, since it covers up my slides!

Comment 1

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

bug 656433 comment 42 ?

Comment 2

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Yes. But unlike the desktop version, there's no alternate at all.

Comment 3

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Sorry, accidentally closed.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to Tyler Freeman from comment #0)
> 1. Go to about:config
> 2. Change "browser.urlbar.filter.javascript" to false.

FWIW, that pref doesn't have anything to do with this behavior (it controls whether javascript: URIs are filtered out of autocomplete results, IIRC).

Comment 5

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to Masatoshi Kimura [:emk] from comment #2)
> Yes. But unlike the desktop version, there's no alternate at all.

You can use the remote web console:
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2012/10/firefox-for-android-remote-web-console-is-here/

Based on Gavin's comment, I'm going to WONTFIX this.