I've verified the exception is thrown in Chrome 52 when run as a Chrome Packaged App, but not in Chrome 51 or in Chrome 52 when run as a regular web-page.

The error appears that our reference to 'document' isn't defined when we first try to use it.

Mike, has anything changed in M52 regarding packaged app startup?

I seem to have a fix. I'll need to run through our test plan to verify that we haven't caused any regressions, and then we'll issue an updated release (probably on Monday).

I can't repo on Chrome Canary 52.0.2735.0

I can repo in Chrome Dev 52.0.2729.3

This seems to only be a problem in Dev

I've attached a minimal repo case that triggers this error.

If you build some object who's prototype is window

var obj = Object.create(window);

and then try to access the document.

obj.document.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', 'hello');

it throws an Illegal Invocation exception.

This is a regression in Chrome's behaviour.  Where would be the right component to report this to?


I'm also pushing a new calculator version that works around this issue, but it would be good to fix the chrome regression also.

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Fixed and verified.

I filed https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=612192 to track the chrome regression.

It has shorter repo steps.