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#9672 closed bug (wontfix)

Opened June 26, 2011 06:59AM UTC

Closed June 26, 2011 02:06PM UTC

Access to event.relatedTarget causes "Permission denied" exception in Firefox 3.5.x

Reported by: sereda Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: 1.next
Component: event Version: 1.6.1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

When jQuery handles mouseenter/mouseleave events and accesses relatedTarget property, it may cause permission exception in Firefox 3.5.x. (Tested on 3.5.7)

This happens when the relatedTarget is a XUL elemented inserted into DOM - like a scrollbar (not sure how it works exactly).

This is similar to other bugs like #4469, and jQuery has some workaround code (for example, at "var withinElement" near line 3161 @ version 1.6.1) for some cases, however, the following sample code still throws exceptions.

Reproduction sequence:

1. Open code snippet below on Firefox 3.5.7.

2. Move mouse over yellow area and then over to a scrollbar.

3. The exception in the console says "'''Permission denied to access property 'nodeType' from a non-chrome context''' if ( selector.nodeType ) {" 

<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
  $(function() {
    window.onerror = function(e) { window.alert(e); };
    var i = 0;
    $('body').delegate('div', 'mouseleave', function() {
      $("#info").val(++i);
    });
  });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" id="info">
<div style="overflow: scroll; height: 100px; width: 300px" id="x">
  <div id="y" style="background: #ffc; height: 100px; width: 300px"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Change History (3)

Changed June 26, 2011 07:04AM UTC by sereda comment:1

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bnVML/1/

Changed June 26, 2011 07:08AM UTC by sereda comment:2

The bug is ''not'' reproducing on Firefox 3.6.18

Changed June 26, 2011 02:06PM UTC by rwaldron comment:3

component: unfiled → event
priority: undecided → low
resolution: → wontfix
status: new → closed

Firefox 3.5 is obsolete and no longer supported in terms of writing new code to satisfy edge case bugs .