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Author Topic: [bug] FARR error and freeze if html view mode page tries to close win  (Read 7358 times)

Nod5

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When viewing an internet page in FARR's html view mode and that page tries to close it's own window then FARR displays a "do you want to close window?" popup. So far so good. But clicking "yes" gives the error message below multiple times and then FARR freezes and a FARR restart is required.
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To test it, save this as test.html, display in FARR and click close:
Code: HTML [Select]
  1. <a href="JavaScript:window.close()">Close</a>

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thanks, i'll look into it and see if i can fix.

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I'm reviving this. I often use FARR's html view mode to access a specific webpage and that page tries to close itself when a link is clicked. So I encounter this problem almost daily. My current workaround: when the "do you want to close window?" FARR popup shows then I kill and restart the FARR process (through an AHK hotkey).

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The v2.48.01 changelog said EmbeddedWebBrowser was updated which sounded relevant to this and so made me test this again, but the problem remains.

I should add that the error messages are not exactly like above. When I use FARR to access a flash based webpage that after a while tries to autoclose then FARR closes after this chain of error messages (in order from top to bottom):
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I will look into it.

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great, let me know if I can help troubleshoot it.

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fixed -- not yet uploaded -- will be in next update.



A separate but related issue:

what's still not fixed that i'm not sure how to handle is the other side of this coin -- posting to a web page javascript that the page is closing if the user clears the search or closes farr.. 99.99% of the time this does not matter, but for some javascript things (like maybe tiddywiki), a script on a page wants to do something (or prompt user) when the user is leaving the page.

Update: Maybe i spoke too soon -- on testing it seems that the js unload event is indeed called when switching away from browser window, so that's good.
« Last Edit: March 05, 2009, 02:26 PM by mouser »

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Cool!  8)  :Thmbsup:

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Problem fixed in FARR v2.49.01 - great! :Thmbsup: