988249 - Event listener is not called when javascript.enabled is false

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kusanagi Kouichi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 Iceweasel/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140319130652

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run this code:
const { PageMod } = require("sdk/page-mod");

PageMod({
  include: /.*/,
  contentScript: 'document.addEventListener("click", function(event) { console.log("click"); })'
});

2. Open about:config and set javascript.enabled to false
3. Open any page (not about:*)
4. Click a mouse button


Actual results:

The event listener is not called.


Expected results:

The event listener is called.

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

This is working as expected, as the contentScript is running in the content's scope, where javascript is disabled.

Comment 2

[Kusanagi Kouichi]

This is a regression. The code works with firefox 27.

Comment 3

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Irakli, care to look into this?

Comment 4

[Kusanagi Kouichi]

Attachment: patch

Bug 986886 is very similar to this bug. The fix for greasemonkey could be applied to add-on sdk.