When a Firefox update is pending websites no longer load correctly and incurs massive performance hit
Categories
(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: particlecore, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0
Steps to reproduce:
This has been going for years, and reported by many such as https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/wcx854/firefox_tabs_not_loading_when_an_update_is_pending/
Simply using Firefox is enough for this issue to happen once the Firefox browser has an update pending install/browser restart.
This happens on the current stable and nightly versions since it has never been fixed.
Every single time websites stop loading correctly, or there is a MASSIVE performance hit (for example, when watching YouTube videos), there is a Firefox update that was installed and is pending a restart. Every single time.
After restarting, the issues are gone until Firefox installs a new update while the user is browser, which is pretty much daily.
This widespread issue has been going on for at least 2 years now.
Actual results:
MASSIVE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION AND WEBSITES MAY STOP LOADING CORRECTLY.
Expected results:
NOTHING, IT SHOULDN'T AFFECT ANY BROWSING EXPERIENCE.
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Application Update' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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We have had this problem reported multiple times, but no one has yet been able to reproduce the problem consistently enough to collect a profile when the problem is happening. Could you please provide a profile collected when the problem is happening?
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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(In reply to Robin Steuber (they/them) [:bytesized] from comment #2)
We have had this problem reported multiple times, but no one has yet been able to reproduce the problem consistently enough to collect a profile when the problem is happening. Could you please provide a profile collected when the problem is happening?
I'll try
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Updated•1 year ago
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Comment 4•1 year ago
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I wonder if this could be because of Bug 1510262. It seems possible.
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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Were you able to get a profile we could take a look at?
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Comment 6•1 year ago
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Not yet, what I have been getting for a while now instead is this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884125
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Comment 7•1 year ago
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We believe that this bug is fixed with bug 1510262, Fx 128.
If you can still reproduce with that fix, please feel free to re-open with a performance profile.
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