Browser notifications freezes hyprpanel and browser during media playback

[amanhex]

Describe the bug When watching a YouTube video in Firefox, incoming notifications—such as Instagram alerts within the browser—cause both Firefox and hyprpanel to completely freeze. This freeze only resolves if AGS is manually terminated.

To Reproduce i. Open Firefox and start playing a video on YouTube. ii. Receive a browser notification from a site (e.g., Instagram). iii. Observe that Firefox and hyprpanel both freeze simultaneously.

Expected behavior Browser notifications should appear without impacting media playback or causing the hyprpanel or Firefox to freeze.

Screenshots None

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Distribution: Arch Linux (Linux 6.11.6-arch1-1)
• Window Manager/Desktop Environment: Hyprland

Additional context

• part of logs when AGS is launched from terminal

(com.github.Aylur.ags:34968): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 20:14:42.086: Attempting to call back into JSAPI during the sweeping phase of GC. This is most likely caused by not destroying a Clutter actor or Gtk+ widget with ::destroy signals connected, but can also be caused by using the destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Because it would crash the application, it has been blocked and the JS callback not invoked.
The offending signal was destroy on Ags_Label 0x5f42939d4b80.
== Stack trace for context 0x5f428deefde0 ==
#0   5f428dfe3f88 i   resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GLib.js:263 (72637c7c600 @ 139)

[rubiin]

can you also show your memory usage. I am trying a small html page i made to test notifications and bombarding with multiple notifs but could not replicate

[rubiin]

Here the link https://jsitor.com/vGOi-h09sc

[amanhex]

Browser notifications while watching a video on youtube etc causes hyprpanel and browser to freeze. You can try watching a youtube video and receive notifications from instagram to replicate it.

[amanhex]

Here is how I replicate the bug

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/88df5de3-9b41-4e01-8f0d-cd1dce1b1cdd

[rubiin]

cool > will test it out

[rubiin]

Might be browser specific > have to investigate further. I am using vivaldi and tried but it didnt freeze Kooha-2024-11-05-23-15-38.webm

[amanhex]

Sure! I'm using Firefox in the demo. I'll try to replicate it with chromium too.

[rubiin]

In the mean time, i will try with firefox.

[rubiin]

Confirmed. It only occurs when on firefox. I tried the same thing as I did in the above video. It froze. Had to force kill the browser

[amanhex]

Confirmed with chromium too. This time only hyprpanel froze, the browser and video playback was working fine.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

Just replicated it and it's an AGS issue.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

https://github.com/Aylur/ags/issues/605