1268954 - Unable to register service worker due to Firefox profile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1267349

(Core :: DOM: Service Workers, defect)

Description

[jasonpang2011]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load a buggy Firefox profile that stopped registering service workers using: `/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P` and switching to the new profile.
2. With Firefox using the buggy profile, visit https://onesignal.com/serviceworker-subscribe.html for a test page to register a simple service worker script.
3. Click "Register Service Worker, Subscribe, and Unsubscribe".

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Actual results:

On step 3, the notification permission prompt did not appear, and after a few seconds, this message appeared in the console:

TypeError: ServiceWorker script at https://onesignal.com/empty-serviceworker.js for scope https://onesignal.com/ encountered an error during installation.


Expected results:

The service worker only contains:

"console.info('From ServiceWorker: Empty service worker registered!');"

So the script should have successfully registered. Creating a new Firefox profile (using the Profile manager described above) causes the service worker registration to proceed.

Comment 1

[jasonpang2011]

91 MB 2 buggy Firefox profiles, 1 working Firefox profile ZIP file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ip8ngbCOnid196Zld1cm4xVlk/view?usp=sharing

Comment 2

[Lina Butler [:lina]]

At first glance, this seems related to bug 1242056, or maybe a duplicate.

Comment 3

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

Probably a profile opened in FF47+ where we have a newer cache database schema.

Comment 4

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

I've verified that both of the problem profiles have a database schema version of 20.  This means they were used in FF47+ and won't work in FF46 any more.  I also verified that the profile with "dev edition" in its name does indeed work in dev edition FF48.

We should report to console when we detect this.  Duping to bug 1267349.