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CustomEvent no longer works in Firefox extension since v32

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RocLlama
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Since Firefox 32 was released the extension we use to enable copy/paste in our WYSIWYG editor has stopped working. I believe I have tracked this down to an issue with CustomEvent.

Whenever "detail" is added to a CustomEvent in our extension we receive an error in the cfx run console. In short, this no longer works:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24473784/customevent-error-in-firefox-bootstrapped-addon

This is the error: 

 Message: [Exception... "Failure"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///var/folders/6s/909dglt145x_lxx318y0zplm0000gn/T/tmpJs13JW.mozrunner/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/sandbox.js -> resource://jid1-ebtrcyjlqioefw-at-jetpack/plugin/data/copy-paste.js :: completePaste :: line 27"  data: no]

To be perfectly clear, this extension works just fine in the current Firefox 31 ESR.

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Since Firefox 32 was released the extension we use to enable copy/paste in our WYSIWYG editor has stopped working. I believe I have tracked this down to an issue with CustomEvent. Whenever "detail" is added to a CustomEvent in our extension we receive an error in the cfx run console. In short, this no longer works: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24473784/customevent-error-in-firefox-bootstrapped-addon This is the error: Message: [Exception... "Failure" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///var/folders/6s/909dglt145x_lxx318y0zplm0000gn/T/tmpJs13JW.mozrunner/extensions/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/sandbox.js -> resource://jid1-ebtrcyjlqioefw-at-jetpack/plugin/data/copy-paste.js :: completePaste :: line 27" data: no] To be perfectly clear, this extension works just fine in the current Firefox 31 ESR. Please advise

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Please contact the developers of the extension. They need to update it to work in modern Firefox versions.

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user633449
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Chosen Solution

Please contact the developers of the extension. They need to update it to work in modern Firefox versions.

RocLlama
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I am the developer, I'm trying to fix it. Can you tell me how to do that, or provide a link to a resource that explains it?

The Mozilla documentation claims that what I'm doing should work:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.createEvent

user633449
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This forum cant help you with add-on development. Try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/