1755380 - login to paypal from wbay hangs on Firefox. 97 It works on other browsers and worked on older Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Tom]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0

Steps to reproduce:

Page invoking paypal login from eBay page hangs on Firefox 97. On previous versions it worked fine.

I can login directly to paypal on Firefox 97, but interfaces with shopping pages like eBay do not work for me. Spawned pages hang and need to be closed.

I had to resort to use other browsers to make payments on eBay.

Tom

Actual results:

Page invoking paypal login from eBay page hangs on Firefox 97. On previous versions it worked fine.

Expected results:

Paypal login page should not hang when invoked from EBay or other shopping sites.

Comment 1

[Tom]

On some shopping pages logging to Paypal in a separate tab first - allows spawned paypal login window to work without hanging.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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

Comment 3

[Dragana Damjanovic [:dragana]]

can you run https://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/
It should help us figure out which change broke this behavior.
Thank you.

Comment 4

[Tom]

The bug is reproducible on Windows 10, I saw it on 2 computers and 2 shopping sites: eBay and Australia Post.
I prefer to avoid running software that I do not know anything about, especially when I found a workaround.

When I login to paypal FIRST (in another tab) before requesting eBay to initiate paypal payment, everything works.
The spawned paypal login window emerges logged in already - no need to login again.

Maybe this is good for the safety of paypal transactions when I login to paypal using its own login page instead of some improvised popup.

Tom

Comment 5

[Valentin Gosu [:valentin] (he/him) {{ PTO until 21 Apr }}]

I tried it myself, and couldn't reproduce the issue.
@Tom, can you take a look at our necko bug reporting guidelines?
First of all, it's not clear what is happening. Could you make a video of your screen? Feel free to use a new dummy paypal/ebay account.
If possible, open the devtools console to see if any errors are happening.
Make sure to disable addons when reproducing, as they can interfere with web pages. Thanks!