Closed Bug 1739244 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

All loaded tabs crash and add-ons stop working on ubuntu Firefox snap when changing keyboard settings

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Gtk
Version:
Firefox 94
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox94 --- affected

People

(Reporter: rwh, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

94.0 (64-bit)
Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu
canonical-002 - 1.0
Running on Ubuntu 21.10, vanilla GNOME 40.4.0 on Wayland, up to date as of 2021-11-04

  • Run Firefox from the snap (using the app launcher)
  • load a web page
  • Open GNOME settings
  • Go to the Keyboard section
  • In the Input Sources section, perform an action like adding or removing an input source. In my case I added the keyboard layout English (United States) -> English (intl., with AltGr dead keys). Removing this also triggers this bug.

Actual results:

  • All loaded tabs in Firefox crash.
  • All Add-Ons are left in a strange state. Some think the browser window is a private window and refuse to run (e.g. BitWarden). Some simply fail to draw the contents of their drop-down menu when you click their icons (e.g. uBlock Origin), some think they're disabled (e.g. Privacy Badger).
  • A browser restart is required to return everything to a working state.

Expected results:

  • The loaded tabs in Firefox should not crash
  • Add-Ons should continue to work.

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

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core
Blocks: snap
status-firefox94: --- → affected
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64

The bug has a release status flag that shows some version of Firefox is affected, thus it will be considered confirmed.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true

This is not an issue I can reproduce, there has been a lot of fixes for snapd that might have fixed it, can you confirm whether you still hit it?

Flags: needinfo?(rwh)

I just tested again on Ubuntu 22.04 with Firefox 101.0.1 (64-bit), Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu canonical 002 - 1.0. GNOME 42.1 on Wayland, up-to-date as of 2022-06-15.

I can confirm that the issue no longer happens.

Thanks for following up!

Regards,

Rob

Flags: needinfo?(rwh)

Thanks!

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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