1771783 - (tp-firebase) Sites using Firebase are broken in private browsing windows.

Status: ASSIGNED

(Web Compatibility :: Privacy: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Description

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Some sites rely on Firebase, which uses APIs that are not yet supported yet in Firefox private browsing mode. This meta-bug is to track those specific uses, in case an interim solution can be developed.

Comment 1

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Attachment: Bug 1771783 - Work around known site breakage related to Firebase in Private Browsing mode, which expects some DOM storage APIs which are not yet available in PBM; r?denschub,pbz,timhuang

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/430c8dbe4132
Work around known site breakage related to Firebase in Private Browsing mode, which expects some DOM storage APIs which are not yet available in PBM; r=denschub,pbz,timhuang,webcompat-reviewers

Comment 3

[Cristina Cozmuta (:CrissCozmuta)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/430c8dbe4132

Comment 4

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Actually, let's reopen this for now, as I'm sure there will be more breakage reports related to Firebase until we fix things properly.

Comment 5

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Attachment: Bug 1771783 - tweak the SmartBlock Firebase shim to work around issues introduced after bug 1776109 and to also support zone.js as needed in bug 1778993; r?ksenia

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/925506f2c0bd
tweak the SmartBlock Firebase shim to work around issues introduced after bug 1776109 and to also support zone.js as needed in bug 1778993; r=ksenia,webcompat-reviewers

Comment 7

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/925506f2c0bd

Comment 8

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:twisniewski, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
• If no, please set status-firefox103 to wontfix.

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Comment 9

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Oops, I forgot to mark this as leave-open. There are still sites that require Firebase which are not covered here, and probably will not be until we implement all of the missing APIs.

Comment 10

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

The leave-open keyword is there and there is no activity for 6 months.
:twisniewski, maybe it's time to close this bug?
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Comment 11

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

I just checked, and it's not 100% clear whether we still need the shim here or not, since we still don't support ServiceWorkers in PBM (though we do now support the cache API). So let's keep this open for now.