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Feeds don't update, need to disable, restart, then re-enable to update. #461

Open jeremiah-rs opened 5 years ago

jeremiah-rs commented 5 years ago

I'm not sure if this is a similar bug to the ones already reported on here so I am submitting this bug report.

When I have Brief enabled, it will work and do it's thing well until I close the browser. When the browser is restarted, it stops updating the feeds. To fix this, I have to disable brief, exit firefox, then re-open Firefox and then enable Brief. Once this is done, Brief starts working again.

Is anyone else having a similar issue?

tanriol commented 5 years ago

I've never seen this kind of problems.

What's your Firefox version and Brief version? When Brief does not update feeds, does the Brief tab open? Can Brief's icon display the unread number?

Can you open about:debugging, choose Debug for Brief, tell Brief to update feeds and check whether there are any errors in the console?

Sxderp commented 5 years ago

There have been pretty big reliability and usability upgrades to breakpoints in recent Firefox versions. You should be able to easily trace the background page initialization by opening the debugger, putting down a breakpoint, and enabling / disabling in about:addons.

jeremiah-rs commented 5 years ago

I've never seen this kind of problems.

What's your Firefox version and Brief version? When Brief does not update feeds, does the Brief tab open? Can Brief's icon display the unread number?

Can you open about:debugging, choose Debug for Brief, tell Brief to update feeds and check whether there are any errors in the console?

I am using Firefox v67.0.1 and Brief v2.6.0b2.

The Brief tab does open, it just does nothing when I hit update and doesn't update. I have the number update turned off, I will toggle that setting and see if that improves anything.

There are a few errors when Brief doesn't update its feeds:

error occurred while processing 'sources: TypeError: window is null Stack: webExtensionTargetPrototype.isExtensionWindow@resource://devtools/server/actors/targets/webextension.js:276:3 webExtensionTargetPrototype._allowSource@resource://devtools/server/actors/targets/webextension.js:293:18 TabSources/this.allowSource@resource://devtools/server/actors/utils/TabSources.js:25:39 _addSource@resource://devtools/server/actors/thread.js:1663:23 onSources@resource://devtools/server/actors/thread.js:1077:12 onPacket@resource://devtools/server/main.js:1291:58 receiveMessage@resource://devtools/shared/transport/child-transport.js:66:16 Line: 276, column: 3 main.js:1160 _unknownError resource://devtools/server/main.js:1160 onPacket resource://devtools/server/main.js:1294 receiveMessage resource://devtools/shared/transport/child-transport.js:66

downloadable font: kern: Too large subtable (font-family: "Open Sans" style:normal weight:700 stretch:100 src index:0) source: moz-extension://3761795e-c581-4f50-9a0e-9dea92b7eb3f/popup/fonts/Open_Sans-normal-700.woff unknown:65:11 downloadable font: Table discarded (font-family: "Open Sans" style:normal weight:700 stretch:100 src index:0) source: moz-extension://3761795e-c581-4f50-9a0e-9dea92b7eb3f/popup/fonts/Open_Sans-normal-700.woff unknown:65:11 Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist. ui-service.js:177:29 TypeError: docShell.failedChannel is null NetErrorChild.jsm:781:30

Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist. ui-service.js:177:29

Please let me know if you need any other information from my end. Thanks for looking into this and for getting back to me!

jeremiah-rs commented 5 years ago

I've never seen this kind of problems.

What's your Firefox version and Brief version? When Brief does not update feeds, does the Brief tab open? Can Brief's icon display the unread number?

Can you open about:debugging, choose Debug for Brief, tell Brief to update feeds and check whether there are any errors in the console?

I think I have figured something out, this behavior only happens when I clear the cache/private data and restart the browser. When I do that, Brief asks me for storage permissions again upon restart, it seems that it forgets to permanently hold that permission. This is when I have to disable/restart/enable Brief to get it to work again.

This makes me believe that there's an issue with the way that persistent storage permissions are working with the extension/Firefox.

LaurentDardenne commented 5 years ago

Hi, same problem (and the feeds can not be deleted). Brief : 2.6.0 Firefox : Version 68.0.2, August 14, 2019 Windows 10 1903

jeremiah-rs commented 5 years ago

Hi, same problem (and the feeds can not be deleted). Brief : 2.6.0 Firefox : Version 68.0.2, August 14, 2019 Windows 10 1903

Yeah, it's still still there. I have gotten around it by not clearing the cache/private data and just using ccleaner to clear my cookies/cache.