Closed Bug 1369362 Opened 7 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Loading certain bookmarked pages in the sidebar causes Firefox to crash

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: nhnt11, Unassigned)

References

Details

Example STR on Nightly 55.0a1 (2017-06-01) (64-bit) macOS: a) Create bookmark for https://web.telegram.org/ (I think you need a Telegram account for this STR to work) b) Enable the "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" option for it. c) Open the bookmark from the bookmarks toolbar button dropdown menu or from the sidebar, etc d) Wait for Telegram to load in the sidebar Firefox will hang (with the beach ball of death on macOS). I haven't checked but I don't see why this would be restricted to macOS. This made me sad, because I only discovered the load-bookmark-in-sidebar feature today and got really excited about using things like Telegram in the sidebar while I browse. I believe Telegram uses offline storage, and it certainly uses features like notifications. Maybe the sidebar browser doesn't support something it needs? Anyway, it shouldn't cause the browser to crash. Funnily enough, when I first tried this, it worked fine, I was able to text my friends while browsing. Only after I closed Nightly (with the sidebar open, though I don't know if this is significant), and restarted it, did I observe the crashing behavior. Since then, the crashing behavior has been reproducible 100% of the time. I will investigate further on a clean profile and comment my findings on this bug.
The only thing bookmarks do here is invoking openWebPanel. The bug is likely down in the browser code used in the sidebar, unrelated to bookmarks handling: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/507743376d1ba753d14ab6b9305b7c6358570be8/browser/components/places/PlacesUIUtils.jsm#1051 It would be useful to have a stack of the crash. I'm moving to tabbed browser for now, then depending on the crash stack it could end up being moved elsewhere down in the platform.
Component: Bookmarks & History → Tabbed Browser
Telegram also registers a service worker (https://web.telegram.org/service_worker.js), I wonder if this affects other sites that register one.
"Load this bookmark in the sidebar" has now been removed in bug 1452645 so this is a wontfix.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Depends on: 1452645
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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