js url from about:blank allows scripts globally

[al_9x]

Fx 15.0b5, NS 2.5.2rc1, new profile, allowURLBarJS=true

1. start Fx, open error console
2. load about:blank
3. load javascript:'test'
4. the url executes, but the following is logged

   Code: Select all

   Error: can't access dead object
   Source File: jar:file:///ns_xpi_path/components/noscriptService.js
   Line: 4333
   

5. check the ns icon and options, scripts are now globally allowed, which survives a restart

from about:newtab the js url doesn't load at all

[therube]

I can generate the Error Console message.

I could not generate the Globally Allowed.

Though there is definitely something screwy going on.
Like if I manually enabled Allow Scripts Globally, not sure what it did or did not do?
I don't think Allow Globally is working at that point?

Firefox Setup 15.0b5.exe
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/5b309ad1a88a

(What a frickin joke what they use for their UA!)

[therube]

I see similar in SeaMonkey, Aurora, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20120817 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13a2.

[GµårÐïåñ]

Yeah I get the error too but not the globally allowed, so not sure how you got that to happen. Have you tried a more recent nightly to make sure its not something Mozilla screwed up between builds? It just recently happened with something else where the nightly broke something on Mozilla side and affected NS but was fine the next day.

[Giorgio Maone]

Fixed in latest development build 2.5.3rc2, thank you.

[al_9x]

Fixed in latest development build 2.5.3rc2, thank you.

404 on noscript.net, got it from AMO

a couple of related issues:

1. if starting with about:blank and the first javascript: url is non void, subsequent invocations (void and not) don't run.
   after javascript:'test' loads, invoke javascript:'test1' or javascript:alert('test')
   when starting with a different url (e.g. about:home), not a problem
2. javascript: urls don't work at all from about:newtab

[Giorgio Maone]

1. if starting with about:blank and the first javascript: url is non void, subsequent invocations (void and not) don't run.
   after javascript:'test' loads, invoke javascript:'test1' or javascript:alert('test')
   when starting with a different url (e.g. about:home), not a problem
2. javascript: urls don't work at all from about:newtab

It looks like a byproduct of the principals which get assigned to about:newtab and the result of a JavaScript expression from about:blank.
I'm not sure I can do anything about it, but I'll try.