User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050306 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050306 Editing text will fail with Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument.execCommand]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/htmlarea.js :: anonymous :: line 1633" data: no] Source File: http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/htmlarea.js Line: 1633 Works fine in 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to the htmlarea demo page http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/examples/core.html 2. select some characters, apply "bold" Actual Results: nothing happens, except the exception in Javascript Console Expected Results: should apply changes and allow text input When you try to input new text, you get "link found"/"link not found" texts in the status bar

updated version

other exception in similar context Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMWindowInternal.focus]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/htmlarea.js :: anonymous :: line 1006" data: no]

-> Composer Olivier: Could you reproduce bug in Suite 1.8 beta 1 or specify regression window (for example between 1.8 alpha 2 and 3)?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284245 ***