Closed Bug 1719067 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

The active webpage is covered by a circular progress bar on session restore

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(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Firefox 90
defect

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RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: erwinvillejo, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Enable "Restore previous session" on settings.
  2. Open several web pages on multiple tabs. Take note of the current/active tab.
  3. Close the browser window (make sure it is the only window open so that the browser process exits).
  4. Re-launch Firefox.

Actual results:

On re-launch, the browser restores previous session, i.e., the multiple tabs are restored, but the currently active tab loads the web page but is covered by a circular progress bar in the middle of a white/default background that doesn't go away.

Switching to other tabs successfully loads them. The issue only happens on the active tab on session restore.

Opening the inspector works and shows that the webpage HTML document is loaded (see attached screenshot), but the circular progress bar is covering it.

Expected results:

The currently active tab should be shown and not covered by a circular progress bar.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Session Restore' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Session Restore

I have narrowed down the problem to GNOME on Xorg. It does not happen on GNOME on Wayland.

I couldn't manage to reproduce this issue in x11 Windowing System. I tried on Ubuntu 20.04 x64 on Firefox 91.0a1, Firefox 90.0b12 and on Firefox 89.0.2.
Mozilla has a list of basic troubleshooting steps. These can solve almost every problem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/wiki/support/troubleshooting

Thanks.

Flags: needinfo?(erwinvillejo)

(In reply to Hani Yacoub from comment #3)

I couldn't manage to reproduce this issue in x11 Windowing System. I tried on Ubuntu 20.04 x64 on Firefox 91.0a1, Firefox 90.0b12 and on Firefox 89.0.2.
Mozilla has a list of basic troubleshooting steps. These can solve almost every problem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/wiki/support/troubleshooting

Thanks.

Thanks for looking into this.

I tried to reproduce it on my laptop, and was unsuccessful also. So I think another factor is the graphics driver. In the system where I found the issue, the graphics card is an NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super, and is configured to use the propriety NVIDIA drivers (NOT Nouveau, although I haven't tried it).

So to recap:

  1. Propriety NVIDIA driver. The one I'm using: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/
  2. GNOME on Xorg. The workaround, which is to use GNOME on Wayland instead, is not preferred because of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/528
  3. Enable "Restore previous session"
  4. Re-launch Firefox after closing with multiple open tabs.
Flags: needinfo?(erwinvillejo)

Refreshing Firefox (Developer Edition 90.0b12) fixed the issue. I will close this bug report.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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