1430093 - Firefox tab(s) crash when Youtube page finishes loading - Details + Fix + Crash Dumps included

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1320027

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[ernbcaan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20100101

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 57.0.4 on Fedora 27

When loading a page on Youtube (a video, or even just the main homepage), when the page is finished loading, every Firefox tab crashes.

Not extension related, tested without extensions and issue does not occur on 'Private' windows.

Disabling 'site data' storage on about:config mitigated the issue, however, it came back for some reason and Firefox was still creating files in the "/home/myaccount/.mozilla/firefox/myprofile/storage/default/" folder for Youtube.

I had to manually delete and re-create the https++www.youtube.com site data folder as root and disallow writing, now Youtube does not crash.

Here are two crash dumps

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/ac0cf31f-4513-498e-9d7c-e94850180112

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/7cb220c9-3e69-4a44-bd68-997080180110

If you sort, there are other people experiencing the same crashes with the same reasons on different OS/s.


Actual results:

Youtube will crash all Firefox tabs after loading due to 'site data' problems. Blocking Firefox from writing site data for Youtube fixes it as a workaround.


Expected results:

No crashes.

Comment 1

[ernbcaan]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1196060

This user who has the same problem says it is related to "dom.indexedDB.enabled" being set to False. In my case I have this set to False as well.

So it's possible the crashes are happening due to Firefox still creating directories/files when this setting is changed to False