Firefox error when calling d3.pointer inside of 'zoom' event handler

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Discussed in d3/d3#3907

^{Originally posted by @tsairinius August 29, 2024}
In the following example, I am calling d3.pointer inside of a 'zoom' event handler. The zoom behavior is being applied to an SVG element. When I call the zoom behavior's scaleTo method, the following error occurs in Firefox (Chrome and Edge seem to work fine):

"TypeError: SVGPoint.x setter: Value being assigned is not a finite floating-point value."

I've also tried replacing scaleTo with scaleBy and transform, but the same error pops up.

See example here: https://jsfiddle.net/nLt523mj/

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It happens here

d3-selection/src/pointer.js

Line 10 in d8ea800

point.x = event.clientX, point.y = event.clientY;

the pointer receives an event that has no clientX property, which triggers the error.