1388056 - Sometimes new tab won't load (console shows error `addMessageListener is not defined`)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1387852

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Happens to me on today's Nightly macOS Version 57.0a1 (2017-08-07) (64-bit)

ReferenceError: addMessageListener is not defined
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activity-stream.bundle.js:736:3
initStore
resource://activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream.bundle.js:736:3
<anonymous>
resource://activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream.bundle.js:2724:15
__webpack_require__
resource://activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream.bundle.js:20:12
<anonymous>
resource://activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream.bundle.js:66:18
<anonymous>
resource://activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream.bundle.js:1:11

Comment 1

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

STR:

1. Cmd+T


Expect result:

1. New tab content w/ onboarding overlay and button.

Actual result:

1. Blank page with only onboarding overlay and button.
2. Open DevTools console shows the error in comment 0.

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Sounds like bug 1387852. Is this consistently on every restart? Do you have any special sessionstore or startup prefs? Or maybe addons?

Comment 3

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

(In reply to Ed Lee :Mardak from comment #2)
> Sounds like bug 1387852. Is this consistently on every restart? Do you have
> any special sessionstore or startup prefs? Or maybe addons?

I couldn't figure out how to reproduce this reliability. Let's dup given it's the same JS error.