1778125 - The website seek.com.au turns blank when it loads completely with ETP set to Strict

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, defect, P3)

Description

[Calin Tanase]

Attachment: seek desktop.png

Environment:
Operating system: Windows 10
Firefox version: Nightly 104.0a1 (2022-07-05) ; Firefox Release 102.0 (64-bit)

Preconditions:
ETP set to STRICT
Clean profile

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to https://www.seek.com.au/job/57612252?savedSearchID=1a995622-a1de-11e8-93a9-0f6487f6414a&tracking=JMC-SAU-eDM-JobMail4.01-3881
2. Observe the page

Expected Behavior:
The website loads correctly.

Actual Behavior:
The website turns blank after it finishes loading.

Notes:

1. Screenshot provided
2. Reproducible on multiple versions of Android (9,11,12)
3. Reproducible in Private Window with Standard and Strict ETP
4. Not reproducible with ETP off in a Private Window
5. Not reproducible on Firefox Release Desktop and Mobile

Comment 1

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

This is caused by an oversight in SmartBlock's Branch Web SDK shim. The init method of the SDK can accept a callback as its last of 2 or 3 parameters, but the shim currently assumes it will always be the second argument. This can be trivially fixed.

Comment 2

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Attachment: Bug 1778125 - update the SmartBlock Branch shim to accept a callback as the last argument of the init method regardless of number of arguments; r?ksenia

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/2f9fbdad126a
update the SmartBlock Branch shim to accept a callback as the last argument of the init method regardless of number of arguments; r=ksenia,webcompat-reviewers

Comment 4

[bszekely]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2f9fbdad126a

Comment 5

[Ciprian Georgiu, Desktop QA]

Reproduced this bug using Nightly 104.0a1 (20220701093330), with STR from comment 0.

The issue is verified as fixed on Beta 104.0b5, across platforms: Win 10 x64, macOS 11 and Ubuntu 18.04 x64.