Closed Bug 1883995 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Firefox (Nightly) debug mode (not responding) when Event Viewer Service is disabled

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Win32
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: digitals.organization101, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

  1. When using Playright (Test automation tool), set the project to Firefox.
  2. disable Event Viewer service in Windows
  3. Execute the test in debug mode / or using the playwright extension

This issue impacts executing Firefox in debug mode as a whole. There's an uncaught exception causing the binary to stop responding, but instead, it should return an error message or decouple the dependency on the OS service in the first place.

Actual results:

Firefox becomes non-responsive in debug mode.
Due to dependency on Windows Event Logging / Viewing service. (uncaught exception)

Expected results:

Firefox nightly should not depend on the OS service to operate; if disabled, it should operate normally, and if enabled, it should report any errors to the event viewer.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Product: Firefox → WebExtensions

Hello,

Sine the issue does not appear to be caused by webextensions, I’ll change the product of this report to better reflect the issue.

Product: WebExtensions → Firefox

Moving this over to a potential component as I am not sure where this would fit best. If this is not the right, please change to a more suitable one.
Thanks!

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Win32
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: other → unspecified
Component: Widget: Win32 → General
Product: Core → Testing

I don't see any service named "Event Viewer", "Windows Event Logging", or "Windows Event Viewing" in services.msc. There is a service named "Windows Event Log", but a) it explicitly warns that "Stopping this service may compromise security and reliability of the system", and b) on its own, without Playwright, Firefox appears to run just fine with that service stopped.

If this is an issue at all, it appears to be a Playwright issue — but I'd be surprised if the Playwright devs will accept it either.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Component: General → Widget: Win32
Product: Testing → Core
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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