1213671 - Browser window stops painting when closing a tab or when opening background tabs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Kostas]

I use inbounds x64 (in win10 x64 build 10240).

Since inbounds of 10-08-15 I've noticed (at least once a day)
that, although initially closing tabs works ok,
after some browsing, randomly (i.e. it may occur shortly after launch or after a lot of time),
as I click to close a tab, all Firefox display "hangs" and, after a few seconds it becomes completely white (not even the Minimize|Restore|Close buttons appears).



During that time, Task Manager shows that Nightly is working ok (there's no "Not Responding"),
there's no relevant entry in about:crashes nor in Event Viewer.
And, I only use Greasemonkey and Adblock Plus, but this happened in safe mode too.

Also, during that time, moving the mouse around the page (i.e. the white display area), 
I see that the cursor changes when hovering on the (supposed) positions of links or thumbnails.



Note that, when this occurs(to a normal FF window), 
if, apart from the normal window, there are private windows also open,  
then the private windows still work ok, i.e. only the 1st window "hangs".


Also, when this occurs, when I click to close the "hang" window,
it closes normally (there's no "The program is not responding. Close the program?/Wait to respond?")
and at FF re-launch, session restore works ok.

Comment 1

[Kostas]

e10s is enabled.

Comment 2

[Kostas]

Some additional notes:

1. when this issue occurs, you may still click the hamburger button and the menu opens (though slowly).
Also, moving the cursor around the page you'll see that the cursor changes when hovering on the (supposed) positions of links or thumbnails. 

2. if you have a download running while this occurs, the download will continue till completion normally.

3. In general, what happens is that, when this issue occurs, i.e. the tab bar strip "hangs",
you cannot switch tabs, nor open a new tab (via either the + icon or via Ctrl+T) anymore.
If then you minimize and restore the window, ONLY THEN it becomes white, as if it "hanged".
(and if you move the mouse around the white area, you'll see that the cursor when over the (supposed) positions of elements).

Comment 3

[u279076]

Thank you for reporting this bug, Kostas. Can you please work to find the precise regression window? Since you're familiar with mozilla-inbound builds you can try testing the builds individually to find where it started. Alternatively you can use mozregression[1] to somewhat automate the process. It should provide you with a pushlog URL which should give us an indication of the offending change.

Thank you.

1) http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Funny, I just ran into this today myself, albeit when opening a bunch of tabs via Ctrl+Clicking on various links. Same symptoms otherwise.

Comment 5

[Kostas]

(In reply to Anthony Hughes, QA Mentor (:ashughes) from comment #3)
> Thank you for reporting this bug, Kostas. Can you please work to find the
> precise regression window? Since you're familiar with mozilla-inbound builds
> you can try testing the builds individually to find where it started.
> Alternatively you can use mozregression[1] to somewhat automate the process.
> It should provide you with a pushlog URL which should give us an indication
> of the offending change.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 1) http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/
It definitely started occurring on one of the inbound builds of 2015-10-15, 
because I noticed it that day, and I update my m-i installation many times a day.
But, this doesn't happen in a standard way (I can't find a standard STR)
e.g. yesterday, it happened to me once, and then it didn't happen again, until today

So, I tried to find the regression:
I checked http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-inbound-win64/
and there were 66 builds that day.
So, I tried doing a binary search:
i.e. trying the 33th build (didn't occur), then the 49th, the 59th, the 62th, the 64 and eventually the 66th,
But unfortunately it never occurred during my tests...





Anyway, to sum it up, this issue has occurred to me in these cases:

in my EVERYDAY profile (it has 2 addons: Greasemonkey 3.5beta4 and Adblock Plus 2.6.11.3990 beta)
4 cases: 
- while closing a tab,
- while opening a tab via ctrl+click
- while dragging a tab to change it's position
- (at session restore) while selecting to restore a tab (having Options|General|'Don't load tabs until selected' enabled)

while in SAFE MODE:
The latter of the four is the only case it occurs.

in CLEAN profile 
I can't recreate it.

Comment 6

[Kostas]

FWIW, the same happened just now, after I opened Debugger while viewing a page.

Comment 7

[blinky]

I can reproduce this bug with Flash Player enabled.


Steps to reproduce:

Open this page multiple times https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95157096/85f61cf7/usf1wu4ea9.htm.

See https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95157096/85f61cf7/fsdf5qajoo.mp4

Comment 8

[blinky]

Regression range:

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=2a51d8766dfbfd272518ab3a47d2ca5f452dc971&tochange=e1e281f04f2706c55d017ca55e35ada2e1d05aaf

Comment 9

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Can you please post your about:support information?

Comment 10

[blinky]

(In reply to Jim Mathies [:jimm] from comment #9)
> Can you please post your about:support information?

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Comment 11

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

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Comment 12

[(No longer employed by Mozilla) Aaron Klotz]

I'm seeing this too, though it isn't consistently reproducible. The main threads are still pumping messages, so the processes aren't considered to be hung. In fact, if I right-click I can see context menus. It's clearly a painting issue.

Comment 13

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Aaron Klotz [:aklotz] (please use needinfo) from comment #12)
> I'm seeing this too, though it isn't consistently reproducible. The main
> threads are still pumping messages, so the processes aren't considered to be
> hung. In fact, if I right-click I can see context menus. It's clearly a
> painting issue.

I ran into this this weekend, filed bug 1215847. May be the same thing.

Comment 14

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

per comment 8.

Comment 15

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Attachment: fix

This is caused by a missed fall through case in UpdatePluginWindowState where visibility data isn't available.

The changes in AsyncCompositionManager weren't the cause, but I came across that !mLayerManager->GetRoot() early return while debugging. No harm in handling that too, just in case. ResolveRefLayers should always return false for *aResolvePlugins when it doesn't have a real result from UpdatePluginWindowState.

Comment 17

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Attachment: fix

Comment 18

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/dc02ecb027a7

Comment 19

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/dc02ecb027a7