Bug 31614

Summary:	firefox stalls trying to open this site; chromium and edge do not
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	foxnews.com
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox 102.8.0esr (64-bit)	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frank Griffin 2023-02-28 17:05:26 CET

This occurs on two of my current cauldron systems.  Opening the sites foxnews.com and foxbusiness.com stall at blank screens, usually with the bottom crawl "waiting for static.foxnews.com".

The loading doesn't stop if you click on the "X" icon, but if you hit the Esc key twice, you *may* get a top popup saying that this page is slowing firefox down, and do you want to stop the page.  If  you choose to stop, the page finishes loading normally.  Esc doesn't always work.

Chromium on the same two machines works fine on these URLs, as does Windows Edge running in a Windows VM, so that rules out any network or hardware problems.  This has been going on for a while, but for years FF was fine on these URLs.

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2023-02-28 20:15:04 CET

Looking at this on a Cauldron system, Xfce. I installed Vivaldi independently from its site, to try.

 https://www.foxnews.com
Firefox: displays page almost, but then sticks
Web/Epiphany: displays page almost, then clags "the page is unresponsive"
Falkon: displays page mostly, then sticks
Vivaldi: displays page which seems to work OK.

 https://www.foxbusiness.com/
Firefox: displays page mostly, then clags
Web/Epiphany: does not display the page, says "unresponsive".
Falkon: mostly displays the page, but it does not work
Vivaldi: displays page, which seems to work OK

So this is not, for us, just a Firefox problem. I will try another distro. (I decline to meddle with chromium).

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2023-02-28 20:48:52 CET

This smells like some sort of recent script feature that is unsupported by many owsers.  If FF can't handle it, I wouldn't expect the others to.

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2023-02-28 21:25:33 CET

I have just tried Mint's up-to-date (for them) Firefox, but forgot to find its version. It *works* on both the Fox URLs. May go back for the Mint version.

[Mageia: firefox-102.8.0-1.mga9]

Comment 4 sturmvogel 2023-02-28 21:38:00 CET

(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #3)
> I have just tried Mint's up-to-date (for them) Firefox, but forgot to find
> its version. It *works* on both the Fox URLs. May go back for the Mint
> version.
> 
> [Mageia: firefox-102.8.0-1.mga9]

Mint uses rapid release version 110

Comment 5 Frank Griffin 2023-02-28 22:24:18 CET

Good job, guys.  I wouldn't object to a freeze push of 110, but then again it's a bug that's pretty limited in scope, although someone other than I must have found it for it having had to be fixed.

Comment 6 sturmvogel 2023-02-28 22:43:52 CET

Mageia won't ship the Firefox RR version but only the ESR version.

It seems not even a Firefox bug but a crappy coded single webbage as shown by Lewis comment 1. 
Falkon, Epiphany and Firefox use completely different browser engines, codes and programming languages but show the same symptomes. So 99% a badly coded page...

Comment 7 katnatek 2023-03-01 03:52:23 CET

To Comment#0

Tested both on Mageia 8 with Firefox RR (with ublock origin) and site loads well.
Did you try with Firefox ESR from Mozilla to discard a packaging issue?

Comment 8 Lewis Smith 2023-03-01 21:16:29 CET

(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #6)
> It seems not even a Firefox bug but a crappy coded single webbage as shown
> by Lewis comment 1. 
> Falkon, Epiphany and Firefox use completely different browser engines, codes
> and programming languages but show the same symptomes. So 99% a badly coded
> page...
I agree about all this, but it is always difficult for us where other browsers cope and ours do not. Since Vivaldi is yet another browser based on Chromium, could that be a clue?
Faulty or not, Fox is a major site.

Comment 9 Frank Griffin 2023-03-01 21:51:59 CET

As a matter of interest, I have taken to reading these sites from edge inside a Windows VM, and edge regularly issues a popup saying that the window is not responding and do I want to wait or close it.  I always choose wait, and it seems to resolve itself, but it's indicative that not even edge (with which I assume they tested) is happy with their content.

Comment 10 Lewis Smith 2023-03-02 20:02:41 CET

(In reply to Frank Griffin from comment #9)
> As a matter of interest, I have taken to reading these sites from edge
> inside a Windows VM, and edge regularly issues a popup saying that the
> window is not responding and do I want to wait or close it.  I always choose
> wait, and it seems to resolve itself, but it's indicative that not even edge
> (with which I assume they tested) is happy with their content.
This 'not responding' is what I see with some other browsers; I have never tried 'wait'.
Trying Firefox again on FoxNews, it is has mostly displayed the page, but is saying "This page is slowing Firefox. To speed up the browser, stop this page". The status is showing "Waiting for ..." which varies. Sometimes a news item link starts OK, then stops.

Comment 11 Frank Griffin 2023-09-05 21:47:31 CEST

This appears to be fixed in the latest cauldron FF (115 ESR, I think).

Comment 12 Frank Griffin 2023-09-05 21:48:04 CEST

Closing.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED