Ubuntu
firefox package

Javascript broken in Firefox after update

Bug #132460 reported by Casey Hendley
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firefox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After a large update of Gutsy last night (08/13) around 2015 EDT Javascript stopped working completely in Firefox 2.0.0.6. It's now as if Firefox is operating as a browser that does not support JS at all, since JS-driven pages show up as blank usually.

Steps taken included --purge removing firefox, --reinstall installing Firefox, removing Java6 plugin/reinstalling plugin and trying other browsers based on Firefox, such as Kazehakase and Flock. Also removed ~/.mozilla and found that while Gran Paradiso still would not run JS, 2.0.0.6 would. After restarting 2.0.0.6 JS failed again and has yet to work.

I discovered, via Google, instances of this happening in January 2006 and again in August 2006, on stable Windows platforms and on stable Linux platforms. So I'm not sure if this is a Firefox issue or a Gutsy issue. I have yet to test Opera.

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Casey Hendley (elcasey) wrote :

JS is broken in Opera as well, so this is not a Firefox issue.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

Since even opera is broken, this issue is something really wierd which is certainly out of scope of the firefox package.

Changed in firefox:
status: New → Invalid
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Casey Hendley (elcasey) wrote : Re: [Bug 132460] Re: Javascript broken in Firefox after update

I reinstalled Gutsy, I installed Fedora 7, I tried it in Windows...all
broken(!). I discovered that tweaking the JS settings in Firefox's
preferences seemed to fix it for some websites, but *every* Google site
that relies heavily on JS and CSS is completely and utterly broken.

This is absurd.

Alexander Sack wrote:
> Since even opera is broken, this issue is something really wierd which
> is certainly out of scope of the firefox package.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>

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