1466766 - Smartcard causes Firefox to freeze in OSX

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1447628

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect)

Description

[markus.kullerkup]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Insert USB smartcard reader with smartcard inserted inside.
2. Open Firefox
3. Visit a webpage.


Actual results:

Firefox freezes completely, unresponsive. Firefox can only be closed via "Force quit"
Problem doesen't occur when the card is not inserted to the USB card reader.
Described problem occurs with  different smartcards using different libraries and technology(OpenSC and others)
Tested with:
Firefox 61.0b6 

Mac: 10.13.4

Smartcard reader: Generic Smart Card Reader Interface max APDU size 65536



Expected results:

Firefox should load the webpage and should not freeze.

Similar issue is described here:
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/1278

Comment 2

[markus.kullerkup]

Same problem also occurs with Firefox version 60.1(live).
Problem does NOT occur with Firefox version 59 and 62(alpha)

Comment 3

[Franziskus Kiefer [:franziskus]]

This is fixed in Nightly, will be fixed in the next Firefox beta release, 60.2 and the next ESR 60 release.