Opened 2 weeks ago

Last modified 13 days ago

#7447 new defect

Tab loading indicator shown indefinitely when Adblock Plus is installed and enabled

Reported by: greiner Assignee:
Priority: Unknown Milestone:
Module: Platform Keywords:
Cc: kzar, sebastian, ukacar, mjethani Blocked By:
Blocking: Platform: Chrome
Ready: no Confidential: no
Tester: Unknown Verified working: no
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Description (last modified by mjethani)

Environment

Ubuntu 18.10
Chromium 73 or Opera 58
Adblock Plus 3.5.1

How to reproduce

  1. Create an empty HTML page and add a <script> tag in its <body> with the below content.
  2. Access HTML page through local web server
  3. Whitelist page
  4. Reload page 
window.addEventListener("load", function()
{
  let iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
  document.body.appendChild(iframe);
  
  let doc = iframe.contentWindow.document;
  doc.write("");
});

See also ​https://www.pixfuture.com/adtests/hb.html

Observed behaviour

Tab's loading indicator keeps spinning regardless of whether page is whitelisted.

Expected behaviour

Tab's loading indicator goes away quickly.

Notes

  • When Adblock Plus is uninstalled / totally disabled the problem no longer happens.
  • We can't reproduce the problem on Firefox 66.0.2.
  • This appears to be a bug in Chrome (see ​https://crbug.com/951694)

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 2 weeks ago by kzar

  • Cc sebastian added

comment:2 Changed 2 weeks ago by greiner

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:3 Changed 2 weeks ago by kzar

  • Cc ukacar added
  • Description modified (diff)

comment:4 Changed 2 weeks ago by greiner

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Summary changed from Tab loading indicator shown indefinitely when whitelisted to Tab loading indicator shown indefinitely when Adblock Plus is installed and enabled

The example code's behavior was independent of whether Adblock Plus was installed, unlike what we see on the linked page. Therefore I updated the code in the ticket description to match the page's behavior.

comment:5 Changed 2 weeks ago by sebastian

  • Cc mjethani added

comment:6 Changed 13 days ago by mjethani

I'm able to reproduce this with the following sample extension on Google Chrome Canary (Version 75.0.3759.4 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)):

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "chrome-postload-bug-example",
  "version": "1",
      
  "content_scripts": [
    { 
      "all_frames": true, 
      "matches": ["<all_urls>"],
      "match_about_blank": true,
      "run_at": "document_end",
      "js": ["content.js"]
    }
  ]
}

// content.js
console.log("content.js");

This appears to be an issue with Chrome. If there's a content script that must run at document_end, with the HTML in the issue report above, the page will continue to appear to load forever. This is the case even if the content script is blank.

comment:7 Changed 13 days ago by sebastian

Nice find! We should file a Chrome bug. Other than that, I don't see anything we can do about it.

comment:8 Changed 13 days ago by mjethani

I have reported it now at ​https://crbug.com/951694

comment:9 Changed 13 days ago by mjethani

  • Description modified (diff)
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