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Firefox 85 freeze on launch #295

Closed alexsavage closed 3 years ago

alexsavage commented 3 years ago

Please describe the problem you are having: Intermittent freezes on launch, especially after opening a session restore but even after a clean "safe mode" launch.

Do you use Chrome or Firefox and what version do you have installed: Firefox 85 - Windows 64-bit stable RECAP extension version 1.2.26 Windows 10 20H2, 64-bit

Other extensions loaded:

Only an issue when RECAP is active.

When did this problem first start and how long have you been putting up with it: Seems to be an issue since Firefox 85 installed.

What PACER website were you on when this happened: n/a - happens when starting Firefox, especially if restoring a session

If possible, what case number were you working on:

n/a

about:buildconfig output

dgoodwin1 commented 3 years ago

I've experienced this on two different operating systems. One is Win10, installed along with Adblock Plus, Noscript, and Facebook Container. The other is Catalina, with just Noscript installed alongside. Both hang on startup.

On Win10, but not on Catalina, if I go into safe mode and manually dump the disk cache, the next startup works fine...but the one after crashes. I wonder if this has something to do with the new cache partitioning in Firefox 85?

mlissner commented 3 years ago

This looks like it may be a Firefox issue globally. Others are reporting it here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689032, and I just encountered it myself. I can't reproduce it though, at least not yet. I'll try downloading 84, installing RECAP, and upgrading.

mlissner commented 3 years ago

Tried all that. Couldn't reproduce. Shoot.

dgoodwin1 commented 3 years ago

It kicks in consistently for me when I reenable RECAP, even if that's the only extension active. I have no idea why. Zero idea also why it's only affecting two out of now four machines.

(It's worse on Mac, because I can't even get into safe mode.)

mlissner commented 3 years ago

How do you even disable RECAP? I wasn't able to start Firefox the one time I reproduced this.

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It kicks in consistently for me when I reenable RECAP, even if that's the only extension active. I have no idea why. Zero idea also why it's only affecting two out of now four machines.

(It's worse on Mac, because I can't even get into safe mode.)

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dgoodwin1 commented 3 years ago

On PC, firefox started in safe mode. It would then start again in normal mode if I 1) disabled RECAP via the extensions menu, then restarted, or 2) emptied the disk cache.

On mac, Firefox would only start if I manually removed the RECAP XPI from the relevant extensions folder.

mlissner commented 3 years ago

Interesting, the bugzilla report I shared earlier in the thread mentions something about the cache being related.

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On PC, firefox started in safe mode. It would then start again in normal mode if I 1) disabled RECAP via the extensions menu, then restarted, or 2) emptied the disk cache.

On mac, Firefox would only start if I manually removed the RECAP XPI from the relevant extensions folder.

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dgoodwin1 commented 3 years ago

Right? So odd. Before I figured out RECAP might have something to do with it, I assumed that something was off about my cache.

alexsavage commented 3 years ago

I haven’t experienced this in later versions of Firefox and suspect the FF bug was the cause, however I haven’t spent more effort digging into it to confirm. Since I don’t experience this anymore and haven’t seen other comments I would be fine closing this issue.

This looks like it may be a Firefox issue globally. Others are reporting it here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689032, and I just encountered it myself. I can't reproduce it though, at least not yet. I'll try downloading 84, installing RECAP, and upgrading.