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Enabling blocking of third-party cookies causes infinite spinning on white page #4

Closed valynor closed 6 years ago

valynor commented 6 years ago

I recently enabled chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process (strict site isolation) as recommended by Google for Spectre/Meltdown mitigation.

Unfortunately this seems to break the DOM Distiller Reading Mode, it just shows an empty white page with a spinner at the top.

Is it possible to fix that? Switching off strict site isolation is not an option, unfortunately.

Version 64.0.3282.186 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit) Win7x64 Same problem on ChromeOS 64, too.

metarmask commented 6 years ago

Cannot reproduce on svtnyheter.se nor washingtonpost.com using Chrome 65.0.3325.106 beta. Are you still able to reproduce?

valynor commented 6 years ago

Yes. It's not working on any site for me. I just removed&reinstalled DOM Distiller Reading Mode, no change. I can open the options of your extension and choose colour/typeface but on any website I get a blank white page with a blue spinner at the top.

I'm on Chrome Version 65.0.3325.146 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit) now. The only Chrome flags I am using are: chrome://flags/#reduced-referrer-granularity chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process

Edit: took a screenshot for you while using the extension on this website with task manager open

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metarmask commented 6 years ago

Still unable to reproduce unfortunately. I used 65.0.3325.146 Stable and the same flags as you. Could you try in a new profile?

TBambition commented 6 years ago

same Problem here.

Version 65.0.3325.146 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit) Strict site isolation is enabled in chrome://flags

activity spinner keeps spinning, but nothing happens.

valynor commented 6 years ago

@metarmask As per your request I renamed my \user data\ directory and forced a fresh login&sync on Chrome. The problem persists in exactly the same way as described above .. white page, blue spinner on all websites.

I tried switching off chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process and this also does not fix it, so that was apparently not the cause of my problem either.

The only other Chrome setting that I changed recently is enable blocking for all 3rd party cookies.

metarmask commented 6 years ago

Am able to reproduce by enabling blocking of third-party cookies. The issue can be solved without disabling third-party blocking by allowing the host "chrome-extension://oiembdaoobijmdmeobkalaehgifealpl/" at chrome://settings/content/cookies.

There is a bug in the Chromium bug tracker which, when resolved, will help others with this issue by granting extensions this exemption automatically. You might want to consider voting for it.

jab commented 6 years ago

Thanks for documenting that workaround @metarmask, just tried that and it worked like a charm. Glad I found my way to this issue!

Looks like other users are hitting this though and not finding their way here, then posting to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dom-distiller-reading-mod/oiembdaoobijmdmeobkalaehgifealpl/support that the extension is broken. Might be worth replying to them with a link here, and/or updating the description in the Chrome store to include this info.

FWIW I just starred that Chrome bug (bringing the star count up to 2!). Hope the Chrome developers can fix it before long.