Rails spinoffs - Jan 2007 - Using Firefox 2.0, Ajax fails in new windows opened using windows.open

Has anyone else seen this problem?:

Using Firefox 2.0 on Linux, if a window is opened using window.open,
and that window becomes a new window/tab rather than replacing the
content of an existing named window, then Ajax requests made in that
window do not function.

The errors reported by Prototype are

   TypeError: (function() {this.respondToReadyState(1);}.bind is not a function

for asynchronous Ajax, and

   TypeError: this.onStateChange.bind is not a function

for synchronous Ajax.

Javascript seems unable to find the bind function: inserting

   alert(Function.bind);

displays the expected bind function text, however an

   alert(''bind'');

inserted at the start of the bind function definition is never displayed.


Feels like a Firefox bug, but I''ve opened a Prototype ticket:
    http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7317

If you''d like a demo showing that things fail in a new named window,
but work when the window.open refreshes the named window, then
let me know and I''ll set a publicly-accessible one on my server.

Thanks.

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Jonathan Viney suggested this was a problem with Firefox 2.0,
and was fixed in 2.0.0.1.  He was right.  Thanks Jonathan.

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