Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:52:30 +0100 (CET) From: Bill Squire <billsf@cuba.calyx.nl> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: amd64/121951: Javascript bug in _amd64_ version of Mozilla-Firefox Message-ID: <20080322025230.F26BD28F849@curacao.billsf.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200803220330.m2M3U1bg037782@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 121951
>Category: amd64
>Synopsis: Javascript bug in _amd64_ version of Mozilla-Firefox
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-amd64
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 22 03:30:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bill Squire
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
Billsf Holding BV / Squire for Hire
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD curacao.billsf.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 12 16:30:16 CET 2008 root@curacao.billsf.net:/usr/obj/pkg/src_7/src/sys/CURACAO-SMP amd64 Xorg-xorg-7.3_1 with xf86-video-ati-6.7.196 for ATI Radeon X550 (RV370)
5B63 (PCIE) with XFCE (Gnome apps and some KDE apps)
>Description:
A 'quirk' possibly in the amd64 Firefox causes an error loading
AJAX-style Javascript and other modern scripts that embed XML and
javascript. Same on FreeBSD v7 and v8.
(from the javascript error console)
http://maps.google.com/
http://maps.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/103/maps2/main.js
error: 'a has no properties' (:545) or,
error: 'u has no properties' (:278)
http://slashdot.org/
http://slashdot.org/index.pl
error: '_gat is not defined' (:39) and,
error: 'pageTracker has no properties' (:2415)
>How-To-Repeat:
goto: <http://maps.google.com/>; and note there are NO maps -- anywhere
100% repeatable -- problem has developed over the past six months.
goto: <http://slashdot.org/>, login and try to "Retrieve more of ...."
(at the bottom of the page)
Try to set preferences or any other 'ajax-style' window
100% repeatable -- has developed over 1/2 a year.
Other very minor failures at various sites: (highly variable)
Launching video at various news sites (non-flash) usually implies
manual loading into a mediaplayer or 'carefully timed manipulation'.
BBC, CBC, VARA, VPRO etc. Note: Some sites, particularly in the US, try
to prevent non-Windows usage. (This may or may not be related to this.)
<http://ns.nl/>; has very good error recovery in its scripts -- works.
error: 'u has no properties' (no noticable consequences)
>Fix:
Some sites should be aware of this and perhaps write better scripts.
Run the Linux32 version -- Usually works well.
Run the native 32bit version on an i386 (athlon-xp) or
Run the 32bit version under emulation on amd64. (in a jail)
(Both the real and 'emulated' i386 work error-free.)
Turn off javascript when practical
Learn Javascript-2.0!
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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