Opened 15 months ago

Closed 11 months ago

#7447 closed defect (rejected)

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

Reported by: greiner Assignee:
Priority: Unknown Milestone:
Module: Platform Keywords: closed-in-favor-of-gitlab
Cc: kzar, sebastian, ukacar, mjethani Blocked By:
Blocking: Platform: Chrome
Ready: no Confidential: no
Tester: Unknown Verified working: no
Review URL(s):

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 (10)

comment:1 Changed 15 months ago by kzar

  • Cc sebastian added

comment:2 Changed 15 months ago by greiner

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:3 Changed 15 months ago by kzar

  • Cc ukacar added
  • Description modified (diff)

comment:4 Changed 15 months 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 15 months ago by sebastian

  • Cc mjethani added

comment:6 Changed 15 months 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 15 months 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 15 months ago by mjethani

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

comment:9 Changed 15 months ago by mjethani

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:10 Changed 11 months ago by sebastian

  • Keywords closed-in-favor-of-gitlab added
  • Resolution set to rejected
  • Status changed from new to closed

Sorry, but we switched to GitLab. If this issue is still relevant, please file it again in the ​new issue tracker.

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