Closed Bug 734041 Opened 12 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Linkification add-on breaks about:memory

Categories

(Toolkit :: about:memory, defect)

x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: magicandre1981, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120307 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120307031051

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to open about:memory in firefox


Actual results:

site is empty and Error console shows this error:

Fehler: uncaught exception: aboutMemory.js assertion failed: Unknown location


Expected results:

a full overview of all used memory
Component: Untriaged → about:memory
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: untriaged → about.memory
Thanks for the report.

This patch just modifies the assertion message to give more info:

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/e986790701f3

André, can you please tell me what it prints once you've updated to a Nightly build that contains this patch?  Thank you!
Summary: about:memory is empty → about:memory is empty (aboutMemory.js assertion failed: Unknown location)
Whiteboard: [leave open after merge]
I'll do this after getting the next l10n nightly update which contains your changeset.
it still doesn't include anything useful:

Zeitstempel: 09.03.2012 19:35:02
Fehler: uncaught exception: aboutMemory.js assertion failed: Unknown location: 


I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120309 Firefox/13.0a1 which should contain the fix according to the pushlog:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=08809a43e082&tochange=ead9016b4102
Here is the about:support page:


  Allgemeine Informationen

        Name
        Firefox

        Version
        13.0a1

        User-Agent
        Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120309 Firefox/13.0a1

        Profilordner

          Ordner anzeigen

        Aktivierte Plugins

          about:plugins

        Build-Konfiguration

          about:buildconfig

        Absturzberichte

          about:crashes

        Speicherverwendung

          about:memory

  Erweiterungen

        Name

        Version

        Aktiviert

        ID

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        Current Pushlog
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  JavaScript

        Inkrementelle GC
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(In reply to André Ziegler from comment #4)
> it still doesn't include anything useful:
> 
> Zeitstempel: 09.03.2012 19:35:02
> Fehler: uncaught exception: aboutMemory.js assertion failed: Unknown
> location: 

It is useful -- it says that document.title is empty.  As for how that happens, I have no idea.

I see you have multiple add-ons present.  Can you try restarting in safe mode (which disables add-ons) and see if the problem still occurs?  That would be helpful for debugging purposes.
I'm using a portable version with the loader from caschy (ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/stadt-bremerhaven.de/Portable_Firefox/). Any ideas how I can start this in safe mode?
(In reply to André Ziegler from comment #7)
> I'm using a portable version with the loader from caschy
> (ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/stadt-bremerhaven.de/Portable_Firefox/). Any
> ideas how I can start this in safe mode?

Do the normal instructions (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode) work?  If not, I have no idea, sorry :(
I think it is the addon "Linkification". Disabling it restores about:memory. Can you confirm this? Does the addon also breaks about:memory for you?

http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification/

I'm using this addon for years and can't live without it. And last week nighly works and I saw the issue this week after getting some new l10n updates (after the bug was fixed which caused the l10n builds fail to compile).
> I think it is the addon "Linkification". Disabling it restores about:memory.

It's probably messing with the DOM -- about:memory makes a number of assumptions about the specific DOM structure of the page and will break if an extension swoops in and modifies the page.

Linkification could easily fix this by adding about:memory to a blacklist and never modifying its contents.

I can't find contact information for the add-on developer, John Hansen (y5).  Jorge, do you have an e-mail address?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/123/
Summary: about:memory is empty (aboutMemory.js assertion failed: Unknown location) → Linkification add-on breaks about:memory
Whiteboard: [leave open after merge]
(In reply to Justin Lebar [:jlebar] from comment #10)
> > I think it is the addon "Linkification". Disabling it restores about:memory.
> 
> It's probably messing with the DOM -- about:memory makes a number of
> assumptions about the specific DOM structure of the page and will break if
> an extension swoops in and modifies the page.

There is one assumption.  about:memory sets |document.title| early on and then a short time later looks at it again.  Linkification must be changing |document.title| between these two points.  about:memory assumes that change can't happen.

Is that assumption reasonable?  I thought that relying on |document.title| not changing was reasonable, but my webdev skills are poor.

An easy fix would be for about:memory to store a copy of |document.title| in a local variable and then check that during the second step.
> Is that assumption reasonable?

In my uninformed opinion, yes, I think that's reasonable, particularly for an about: page.
(In reply to Justin Lebar [:jlebar] from comment #10)
> I can't find contact information for the add-on developer, John Hansen (y5).
> Jorge, do you have an e-mail address?
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/123/

I wrote him to this address, but no reply:

http://whois.domaintools.com/yellow5.us
I've stopped using Linkification because of this issue and the lack of response from the developer.

I'm now using the Linkify Plus GM script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1352
(In reply to André Ziegler from comment #14)
> I've stopped using Linkification because of this issue

It's trivial to adjust preferences to fix this though.

Method #1: Ignore all about: pages.
1. Open Linkification Options either by right-clicking the status bar icon and choosing Options, or from the Add-ons Manager.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. From the "Text Protocol:Link Protocol" box, delete the following:
about:about!,
4. Click the OK button.

Method #2: Auto-linkify whitelisted sites only
1. Open Linkification Options either by right-clicking the status bar icon and choosing Options, or from the Add-ons Manager.
2. Click the Functionality tab.
3. Check "Only Auto-Linkify the following domains" and specify them below.
4. Click the OK button.
Just a few months to go until all legacy add-on support ends with 52esr. Is it safe to close this?
I think it's safe to close this.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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