891459 - HTML5 JavaScript App - ReferenceError: closeAlert is not defined

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: General, defect)

Description

[talaviram]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2013-07-09 at 9.14.39 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

1. Sign into Gmail account
2. switch tab and windows
3. ask a friend to send you a gTalk.


Actual results:

New Firefox builds seems to use self notification method (not Growl).

While message does gets to be Notification,
it has the following error:
[JavaScript Application]
ReferenceError: closeAlert is not defined.

You can't "ignore" the error or the Notification window



Expected results:

You should be able to get notified without issues and also be able to ignore and hide the notification dialog.

Comment 1

[Tiziana Sellitto [:tiziana]]

talaviram can you still reproduce this with the newer Firefox versions?

Comment 2

[talaviram]

(In reply to Tiziana Sellitto [:tiziana] from comment #1)

The issue still happens with: 
v24.0 (the latest offered to me).


I can reproduce using the following websites:
http://www.gmail.com
http://www.mightytext.net

On both the steps to reproduce are:
1. make sure the website is open in a tab.
2. switch to another tab
3. receive message triggering notification (mightyext -> SMS, gmail -> Google Talk)

Result: the javascript error alert is being shown and makes it impossible to use Firefox properly until you quit and reopen it.

Comment 3

[Tiziana Sellitto [:tiziana]]

talaviram have you ever had this problem before Firefox 22? 

Could you try if it works in safe mode and with a new  profile? In this way we can try to exclude problems related to some extensions or profile data.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Basic+Troubleshooting#w_3-restart-firefox-in-safe-mode

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 4

[talaviram]

Currently I'm with: v24b3
I didn't have this problem with v22 or below as far as I recall since Gtalk & MightyText used Growl service instead of HTML5 notifications.

I've been able to reproduce this with safe mode and a new profile prior to allowing those websites to provide notifications.

Comment 5

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Looking for closeAlert in mxr: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=closeAlert it is in Toolkit. (Thanks gavin!)

Comment 6

[TestAff]

Same issue here. 
Firefox version 25
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Comment 7

[theod]

I confirm this bug on Fedora 19, Firefox 26.0. Issue noticed with website https://mightytext.net/web/

Comment 8

[Chris McGee]

This is happening in Firefox 26.0 + Xubuntu 12.04 as well with the kiwiirc client: https://kiwiirc.com/

I'm not sure if this is a related problem but the notifications never go away and there are button on the bottom that are cut off so that you can't read them.

Comment 9

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Changing qe-verify? to qe-verify+.