(Sorry, Browser-General people, I have no idea which component this should go in.) Build: 2001080308, Mac OS 9.1 To reproduce: 1. Make a basic test.xul file in your `Documents' folder (or equivalent for your system). 2. Make a copy of the file in the `res' folder in your Mozilla installation. 3. In Navigator, open a local HTML file (such as bookmarks.html). 4. In Navigator's address field, type javascript:open("file:///Macintosh%20HD/Documents/test.xul", "", "width=200,height=200") (or the equivalent URL for your system) and press Enter. Close the window that opens. 5. In Navigator's address field, type javascript:open("resource://strres-test.xul", "", "width=200,height=200") and press Enter. Close the window that opens.6. Now go to <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/>, or any other remote URL. 7. Repeat step 4. 8. Repeat step 5. What should happen: 7. The same window appears as appeared in step 4. 8. The same window appears as appeared in step 5. What actually happens: 7. Nothing. 8. Nothing.

Over to DOM. I bet js in the location bar runs in the current page's security context... ccing mstoltz

This works as designed, typeing javascript:foo in the URL bar is equivalent to executing the javascript 'foo' in the current page. WONTFIX.

> typeing javascript:foo in the URL bar is equivalent to executing the > javascript 'foo' in the current page. That's why I filed the bug. The function clearly has absolutely nothing to do with the current page, so it makes absolutely no sense for it to be pretending it is code in the current page. It doesn't even work when I don't have any pages open!

> The function clearly has absolutely nothing to do with the current page mpt, most uses of javascript: in the url bar are to debug the current page.... I can see how we should consider doing something special for about:blank.... maybe....

javascript: URL's in the URL bar have everything to do with the current page, that's just how it works, in mozilla, and in all other browsers. Try javascript:alert(window.location.href) in any browser and you'll get the URL of the current page. WONTFIX, again.