[Greasemonkey] Re: Q: explicitOriginalTarget.defaultView.document in FF 1.5

[Godmar Back]

You're right: "qs" is the name of a form - I had mistakenly thought
it's a property that google's js just slapped on its document. I'll
try running with the wrappers enabled then.

 - Godmar

On 12/4/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or you can just use namedItem("qs"). The problem isn't that what
> you're doing is unsafe, it's that there's a bug in XPCNativeWrapper
> which makes named item retrieval not work:
>
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XPCNativeWrapper
>
> (search for "Limitations")
>
> - a
>
> On 12/1/05, Godmar Back <godmar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Turns out the answer is to set xpcnativewrappers=no in chrome.manifest
> > to reenable such unsafe accesses.
> >
> >  - Godmar
> >
> > On 11/30/05, Godmar Back <godmar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this question is only tangentially related to GM, however, I'm
> > > wondering if the GM developers encountered similar problems.
> > >
> > > In FF 1.0, I was able to directly access javascript properties of the
> > > document shown in the appcontent window using
> > > event.explicitOriginalTarget.defaultView.document from inside a
> > > DOMContentLoaded callback.
> > >
> > > In FF 1.5, this seems to be the case no longer; or the
> > > DOMContentLoaded callback is invoked differently. For instance, when
> > > trying to access document.gs via
> > > event.explicitOriginalTarget.defaultView.document.gs on the Google
> > > result page I get a "no such property" exception, whereas the same
> > > code works in FF 1.0.
> > >
> > > Although I understand that GM should never have a need to directly
> > > access objects in this way, I'm wondering if maybe someone on this
> > > list might have encountered something during the GM transition to 1.5
> > > that could explain this phenomenon.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >  - Godmar
> > >
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