1860566 - seaart.ai website displays an empty page when Firefox history is set to "Never Remember History"

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect, P3)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

This was reported on our Spanish Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/Duckzifer/status/1716447195581256069

STR:
1/ Go to https://seaart.ai and see the site load correctly
2/ Open preferences and change the History retention preference to "Never Remember History"
3/ Restart Firefox as requested in the dialog that pops up

ER:
Firefox is restarted and the website is displayed

AR:
Firefox is restarted and a blank black page is displayed

This was reported on Windows 11 with 118.0.2 and 119 beta
I can reproduce with 118.0.2 on Linux.
Not clear if this is a regression and/or limited to this website.
I don't know if this affects mobile.

The tweet includes a screencast on how to reproduce the bug.

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

When you restart, on page load the web console yields this error:

Uncaught (in promise) FirebaseError: Messaging: This browser doesn't support the API's required to use the Firebase SDK. (messaging/unsupported-browser).
NuxtJS 24

Comment 2

[James Graham [:jgraham]]

I think this is "service workers / storage don't work in private browsing", so probably not a regression.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

(In reply to James Graham [:jgraham] from comment #2)

I think this is "service workers / storage don't work in private browsing", so probably not a regression.

Even though disabling history is similar to private browsing, this bug manifests in normal browsing mode not in private browsing.

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

Attachment: screenshot

(In reply to Pascal Chevrel:pascalc from comment #3)

(In reply to James Graham [:jgraham] from comment #2)

I think this is "service workers / storage don't work in private browsing", so probably not a regression.

Even though disabling history is similar to private browsing, this bug manifests in normal browsing mode not in private browsing.

When select Never remember history, Nightly explains that
Nightly will use the same settings as private browsing, and will not remember any history as you browse the Web.