The global in question was `event`, set to:
MouseEvent {dataTransfer: null,
toElement: button.btn btn-mini add-alert-word,
fromElement: null, y: 442, x: 763…}
in Chrome. This does seem to be the correct event.
In Chrome, this global variable existed, so the code path didn't error
out. In Firefox, the global variable didn't exist, causing adding
alert words to fail.
(imported from commit 6bd2a0315ff56a20027074d65ccaa094bd35e63f)