2080066 - Spotlight usage while using Firefox for mac causes spinning beach ball that lasts for about 30 seconds. Mac OS Golden gate

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2002102

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:157.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/157.0

Steps to reproduce

Open Firefox load about 10 or so tabs or more. Press command spacebar to bring up spotlight search search for an application and open it.

Actual results

The system hangs a spinning beach ball appears and the Firefox app is rendered inoperable for about 30 seconds or more. This is tested on an M4 Max Macbook pro. Duration may be longer for other models.

Expected results

The application should open and Firefox should continue operating as normal.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Messaging System' component, but is not confident enough to move the bug to that component.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Could you use the steps in https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/performance/reporting_a_performance_problem.html to create a performance profile of Firefox while it is hung like this and share that here? Thank you!

(I haven't seen anything like this in a similar configuration, but haven't updated my machine to Golden Gate yet. It may also depend on what sites you have open...)

Comment 3

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

I am quite confident that this is a duplicate of bug 2002102 and I have a proposed patch in review there. I am going to close this as a duplicate, but if you are able to collect the performance profile that was requested in comment 2, I would be happy to confirm.

Comment 4

[Ben]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #2)

Could you use the steps in https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/performance/reporting_a_performance_problem.html to create a performance profile of Firefox while it is hung like this and share that here? Thank you!

(I haven't seen anything like this in a similar configuration, but haven't updated my machine to Golden Gate yet. It may also depend on what sites you have open...)

I will try this and update.

Comment 5

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Thank you! Also, please note that the patch for bug 2002102 has just landed. If you test with a subsequent nightly (for example tomorrow), it would be great to hear if this fixed the issue for you. Feel free to comment here or in bug 2002102. Thanks again!

Comment 6

[Ben]

https://share.firefox.dev/3VafE1q
This is on 159.01 which seems to have addressed the issue. I'll try to add one from 159.0

Comment 7

[Ben]

Update: I believed it had been solved but it happened again.