1806429 - WhatsApp Web login repeatedly refreshes on Firefox 108.0.1 (64-bit)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1767407

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[Morpheus Ziplon]

Attachment: WhatsApp Web login bug QR Code on Firefox 108.0.1 (64-bit).jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open https://web.whatsapp.com with never remember history on

Actual results:

Trying to generate the QR code looping until returns https://web.whatsapp.com/?logout_reason=0

Expected results:

Generate QR code and login with never remember history on

Comment 1

[Henry Green [:harperG]]

I have managed to reproduce this using the same version on the same OS.

Try opening the browser console while Firefox is repeatedly refreshing by clicking the three lines menu in the top right corner, then 'more tools' near the bottom of the menu, and click 'browser console'. See what message appears in the window that opens - this normally tells you what is happening and it will probably reveal the cause of the repeated refreshing and feed back what it says.

Comment 3

[Morpheus Ziplon]

Attachment: Browser Console 23.12.2022.jpg

Comment 4

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

When "Never remember history" is enabled, Permanent Browsing mode is also activated. I'm going to set this to Firefox > Private Browsing so that our developers can take a look over it - if this is not the right component, please assign a more appropriate one.

Please see also Bug 1767407.

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This was properly marked as a duplicate of bug 1743143 above. It looks like the reporter un-duplicated it without an explanation -- I'm guessing because the descriptions are slightly different -- bug 1743143 mentions private browsing, whereas this bug is about "Never Remember History". But in fact it's still the same, since "Never Remember History" is just a version of permanent private-browsing-mode, essentially.

Re-marking as duplicate.