Google Ads not appearing in the sidebar

[Brian King]

I'm loading a page into the sidebar that has google ads on it:

http://www.yapta.com/sidebar/ssnt/

The ads show fine in the main browser, but not in the sidebar browser.
Same result in Firefox 2 or 3. The error is:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMHistory.length]" nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame ::
http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_ads.js :: anonymous ::
line 43" data: no]

Has anyone seen this, or can speculate why? The loading code is:

var sidebarBrowser = document.getElementById("sidebar");
sidebarBrowser.loadURI(aUrl);

- Brian

[Philip Chee]

> http://www.yapta.com/sidebar/ssnt/

Instead of loading a http:// url directly into the sidebar try using:
openWebPanel(aTitle, aURI) instead.

Phil

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[Neil]

Brian King wrote:

> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
> code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMHistory.length]" nsresult:
> "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame ::
> http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_ads.js :: anonymous
> :: line 43" data: no]

Looks like a missing session history (in SeaMonkey the sidebar browser
constructor fires before it is ready for the session history to be
added; I don't know whether Firefox suffers from the same problem.)

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[Brian King]

On 13/02/2008 16:30 (CET), Philip Chee wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this, or can speculate why? The loading code is:
>
>> var sidebarBrowser = document.getElementById("sidebar");
>> sidebarBrowser.loadURI(aUrl);
>
> Instead of loading a http:// url directly into the sidebar try using:
> openWebPanel(aTitle, aURI) instead.

That did the job, but because of all the dependent code I have in my
sidebar implementation, it opened up a whole can of worms.

So I ended up putting a XUL file in the sidebar with another browser,
and loading the pages into that browser. Similar to the web panels
approach, but with more fine grained control.

- Brian