react: Using throws SecurityError in Firefox

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Bug.

What is the current behavior? In development mode Firefox throws exception SecurityError: The operation is insecure.. It is thrown from postMountWrapper line node.value = node.value;.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via https://jsfiddle.net or similar (template: https://jsfiddle.net/reactjs/69z2wepo/).

Demo:

render() {
  return <input type="file"/>;
}

What is the expected behavior?

No exception.

Which versions of React, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of React? 15.3.1. Not sure how did it behave in previous versions. FF is 48.0.

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 8 years ago
  • Reactions: 3
  • Comments: 17 (6 by maintainers)

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Additional information: It happens only if Firefox autofills the form. If I use <input type="file" autoComplete="off"/> then I no more get this error.