912311 - JavaScript error on accessing `ownerSVGElement` property of SVG element that has no parent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 835048

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1500.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to access the `ownerSVGElement` of an SVG element that has no parent.

Test case:

    document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'circle').ownerSVGElement;



Actual results:

JavaScript error (in Firefox 23 web console):

    [Exception... "Failure"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: debugger eval code :: WCA_evalWithDebugger :: line 1"  data: no]


Expected results:

A value of `null`

Comment 1

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This is also seen on Firefox 23.0 on Android 4.3 (Nexus 4).