edx/edx-platform — pull request #1856 by valera-rozuvan (2013-12-05 15:12:44+00:00)
Title: Moving work on BLD-465 from PR 1811.

Fix for [BLD-465](https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/browse/BLD-465): e-reader error when popping out window.

**Description of BLD-465**
The attached error is seen when attempting to pop out the e-reader in a different window - happens about 50% of the time. Can be seen in 2.03x here: https://courses.edx.org/courses/MITx/2.03x/3T2013/courseware/Course_Text/Textbook/# . Also noted in 4.605x course.

**Reviewers**
- @singingwolfboy (Python part)
- @jmclaus (JavaScript part)

**NOTE**
Original work was going on in https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/1811 . Create a separate PR so as not to block @olmar .