Bug#639620: chromium: fails to disable JavaScript when opening local HTML files from the command line

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: chromium
Version: 13.0.782.107~r94237-1
Severity: normal

Hi!
Thanks for maintaining Chromium in Debian!

I am currently a user of the Galeon web browser and I've recently
installed Chromium, in order to check whether it fits my needs as
my new primary browser...

While playing with Chromium, I noticed what appears to be a bug.

I have my preferences set with "Do not allow any site to run JavaScript"
checked and I haven't (yet) set any exceptions.
The JavaScript interpreter seems to be indeed disabled for all the
(remote) websites I visit (good!).
However, if I open a local HTML file (including embedded JavaScript code)
from the command line, as in:

  $ chromium ~/my_html_file_with_js.html

chromium fails to disable JavaScript, until I refresh the page (which
may be too late, in some cases...).

I think that this is a bug, since, when I say "Do not allow any site to
run JavaScript", I really mean it, with no exceptions (unless I
explicitly set exceptions, of course!).

My impression is that Chromium reads my preferences too late, when
opening a file or URL given as a command-line argument, thus rendering
the page and starting the JavaScript interpreter before realizing that
I do not want the JavaScript interpreter to be enabled...
Or maybe the cause of the bug is completely different, I don't know for
sure.

How can this bug be fixed?

Thanks for your time.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector 13.0.782.107~r94237-1 page inspector for the chromium br
ii  libasound2         1.0.24.1-2            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6              2.13-16               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-6.1            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2           1.4.8-2               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.14-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.94-4                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.13-stable-1       An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac8           1.2.1-5               Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-3               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.6-1               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.6.1-4             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.4-1              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-9               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.5-3              GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.6-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.24.4-3              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62          6b1-2                 Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runt
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.9-1               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.11-1             Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.4-1              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.46-3              PNG library - runtime
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.6.1-4               GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0            0.9.7.p1-1            VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libwebp0           0.1.2-1               Lossy compression of digital photo
ii  libx11-6           2:1.4.4-1             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.3.0-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-4          GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.6-2             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-8              XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1            1:1.2.1-2             X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1-2           desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)

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