Persona fails in Conkeror?

[callahad]

Via to #clojure on Freenode:

bmaddy: doesn't work with my browser (Conkeror)

Conkeror is a fringe browser, but it's built on XULRunner, so Persona should work.

I'll investigate further. Also asking @technomancy to follow up here with more details.

[technomancy]

Thanks for following up.

When I click "sign in" on refheap or openphoto, it appears to make an HTTP request to login.persona.org followed by one to static.login.persona.org, but then nothing happens. Further clicks to "sign in" have no effect until the page is reloaded. I noticed in the JS console this message is displayed: "login.persona.org : server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555"

I'm running Conkeror with XULRunner 15.0 on Debian Squeeze using the mozilla.debian.net backports.

[callahad]

@technomancy Which version of Conkeror are you running / where did you get the deb from? It looks like the latest one in Sid depends on XULRunner <= 13.0

[callahad]

Scratch that -- I can reproduce the issue with a nightly build of Conkeror and XULRunner 19.0...

[callahad]

Looks like the call to window.open is failing, so the pop-up doesn't load:

Timestamp: 12/12/2012 12:09:38 PM
Error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]
Source File: https://browserid.org/include.js
Line: 8

[callahad]

Adding this line to my ~/.conkerorrc appears to fix Persona on my end:

add_hook("window_initialize_hook", initialize_first_buffer_type);

Via the Conkeror mailing list: Content-initiated new windows don't work

@technomancy can you advise on the best course of action for the Conkeror community?

[callahad]

Filed a bug on the Conkeror issue tracker: http://bugs.conkeror.org/issue430

[jrgm]

Marking as upstream, and calling verified.