Login using accounts system on IE10+ is slow and/or not working

[renoirb]

Separating a problem that was earlier described in #19.

Using Internet Explorer 11, when we login through a popup authentication window, once we given our credentials, the spinner never ends and the window doesn’t close.

required: an account on accounts.webplatform.og.

Screencast

In this video around 2:00 to 3:00. What is strange is that it can loop endlessly and a simple click (at 2:34) wakes it up.

Observations

Problem is intermittent. Sometimes it works right away, sometimes if you click in the window it "wakes up", and sometimes it just never finish the flow.

I’m unsure whether its a bug in the notes-server, or the accounts system. After all, the version of Firefox Accounts we are using at accounts.webplatform.org is 5 months old and was under heavy development back then. It might have been fixed since then.

What makes it hard to debug is that I’m not sure where to look in Internet Explorer debugger tool, and we loose everything as soon as the window closes.

Expected outcome

When I try to login on the annotation system on a spec with Internet Explorer 10+. It should work.

Reproduce

Steps:

• Go to a spec
• Click the speech bubble on the right. A sidebar should open.
• Click "Sign in". A popup should open.
• Sign in
• Window should close by itself and show username on the sidebar.

It works well under Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera. I’m not sure why it doesn’t under IE

[tilgovi]

Not a bug in notes-server because that page isn't served by notes-server.

[renoirb]

Right.

We still have to make this work. I’m keeping it open regardless of where in the stack the issue is.

[renoirb]

Removed "blocker" label. We will not fix at this moment. Until we can test with latest version of FxA and see with upstream project at Mozilla FxA team if the latest version has the same symptom.

[renoirb]

I opened an issue in FxA Content server, its mozilla/fxa-content-server#1984