Bug 479641

Summary: Hotmail webmail service is unusable with midori (WebKit)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component: WebKitAssignee: Peter Gordon <peter>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Joachim Frieben 2009-01-12 10:32:24 UTC
Description of problem:
Hotmail webmail service is unusable with midori. After login, the browser is stuck in an endless loop without ever rendering the message window.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
midori-0.0.21-1.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to http://www.hotmail.com.
  
Actual results:
Browser window flickers, and progress bar alternates between 21% and 50% without ever completing the transaction.

Expected results:
Window is loaded and message windows appears in the browser.

Additional info:
For current midori built against WebKit-gtk-1.0.0-0.15.svn37790.fc10.x86_64, no entries are added to .xsession-errors.
However, for locally built packages midori-0.1.1-1.fc10.x86_64 and WebKit-gtk-1.0.0-0.17.svn39790.fc10.x86_64, the behaviour is strictly identical but now, .xsession-errors is filled with entries
 
 "console message: http://gfx6.hotmail.com/mail/13.2.0260.1209/cmpt0.js @1:
  TypeError: Result of expression 'a.HTMLElement.prototype' [null] is not
  an object."

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2009-01-15 15:31:14 UTC
The same issue occurs for epiphany-2.24.1-3.fc10.x86_64 built locally against WebKit-gtk. It is thus a WebKit issue which occurs even for the latest nightly build r39903. Upstream bug is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22633 .

Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2009-01-15 15:33:30 UTC
Btw, https://bugs.webkit.org is not available under "External Bugs". Could anybody take care of adding it?

Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2009-05-10 08:03:04 UTC
Issue has evolved such that it is now possible to enter the Hotmail user account. However, it is neither possible to open a message in the inbox nor to open a different folder. All Javascript actions recognizable by a label "javascript:;" appearing at the bottom of the browser window are disabled.
In an alternate browser like epiphany this works correctly. Installed packages from the "rawhide" tree include
- midori-0.1.6-2.fc11.1.x86_64
- webkitgtk-1.1.6-1.fc11.x86_64
Btw, browser "safari" which is also based on WebKit allows to use Hotmail without any problem.

Comment 4 Joachim Frieben 2009-07-09 17:53:12 UTC
After moving to the WebKit engine, epiphany-2.27.3-1.fc12.x86_64 are affected as well.

Comment 5 Joachim Frieben 2009-09-16 10:55:24 UTC
For current "rawhide", there is some progress:

- webkitgtk-1.1.14-3.fc12.x86_64 / midori-0.1.10-1.fc12.x86_64 [SUCCESS]
- webkitgtk-1.1.14-3.fc12.x86_64 / epiphany-2.27.92-2.fc12.x86_64 [FAILURE]

Now, if success depends on the frontend, this might finally not be a webkitgtk issue, might it?

Comment 6 Joachim Frieben 2009-09-20 14:31:47 UTC
Issue solved for Fedora 11, too, now:
- webkitgtk-1.1.10-1.fc11.x86_64 / midori-0.1.10-1.fc11.x86_64

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