firefox 4: problem with NPN_GetURL target=_self

[Andriy Gapon]

on 19/04/2011 19:55 Deepak Bhole said the following:
> * Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> [2011-04-19 12:43]:
>> on 19/04/2011 19:32 Deepak Bhole said the following:
>>> Which version of Firefox are you using? I tried the above scenario on FF
>>> 4.0 in Fedora 15 and saw no recursive calls. 
>>
>> I have Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.
>>
>>> Having JS call a Java method which then calls NPN_GetURL (via
>>> AppletContext.showDocument()) worked fine for me.
>>
>> Just to double-check, you used showDocument(url, "_self") ?
>>
> 
> Yes, this is the code I used:

Oh, hmm, indeed - I can not reproduce the problem with this simple test case.
I wonder what the original problematic applet does there - unfortunately I can't
provide an easy URL to it as it is within a banking website behind authentication.
I will try to come up with sample code that reproduces the behavior.

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Andriy Gapon