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Bug 1750533 - firefox tab contents are updated with large delay after a tab switch
Summary: firefox tab contents are updated with large delay after a tab switch
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 31
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ffwayland
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-09-09 20:06 UTC by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Modified: 2019-09-19 12:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-09-19 12:34:03 UTC
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2019-09-09 20:06:10 UTC 
Description of problem:
With new firefox (on wayland), after I switch a tab, the "tab bar" at the top indicates that a switched happened (the new tab is highlighted), but contents of switched-from tab are visible for some time. How long seems to depend on the contents. In some cases the whole contents are replaced, but I have seen cases where rectangles are replaced with the new content. After a few seconds only new contents are shown.

This is problematic, because (in the cases where no new content is shown, just the contents of the switched-from tab), it is very easy to be confused, and try to switch tabs further. The partial case, when new contents of the switched-from and swithed-to tabs are mixed, is paradoxically better — it is ugly, but not confusing.

Hardware and software: 
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07)
firefox-69.0-2.fc31.x86_64
kernel-core-5.3.0-0.rc6.git0.1.fc31.x86_64

This certainly didn't happen with firefox-wayland-67, and the older kernel. Not sure who is the culprit.
Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2019-09-09 20:07:59 UTC 
This also happens with kernel-core-5.2.9-200.fc30.x86_64, and didn't before. So the new firefox version seems relevant.
(I'm running on wayland and using firefox-wayland).
Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2019-09-10 09:00:50 UTC 
I think it's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579794
Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2019-09-10 10:20:09 UTC 
Let's backport that to FF69 at Fedora.
Comment 4 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2019-09-11 11:27:58 UTC 
>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579794

Yeah, sounds reasonable. Having video in one of the tabs seems to make this much more likely.
(But it also happens with other tabs...).
Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2019-09-11 12:46:31 UTC 
It's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580152 and it's actually a different bug. I'll backport it to 69.0-5.
Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2019-09-11 19:26:04 UTC 
New builds are here - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=37604373
Comment 7 Martin Stransky 2019-09-12 05:39:22 UTC 
*** Bug 1751238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Martin Stransky 2019-09-12 05:43:11 UTC 
*** Bug 1751372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-09-12 05:46:31 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-7666428f3c has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7666428f3c
Comment 10 Martin Stransky 2019-09-12 06:30:02 UTC 
I revoked the update as the fix seems to be only partial.
Comment 11 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2019-09-13 16:09:01 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #6)
> New builds are here -
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=37604373

Yeah, I can confirm that this fixes the issue, but only partially. It's clearly better though.
Comment 12 Martin Stransky 2019-09-16 08:09:43 UTC 
The final fix is at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580152, I'll back port it to Fedora when it hits mozilla nightly.
Comment 13 Martin Stransky 2019-09-17 11:01:06 UTC 
We also need to take https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1581748
Comment 14 Martin Stransky 2019-09-19 12:33:00 UTC 
Should be fixed by firefox-69.0.1-1 and later.
Comment 15 Martin Stransky 2019-09-19 12:33:43 UTC 
btw. the builds are there - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1379884
Comment 16 Martin Stransky 2019-09-19 12:35:28 UTC 
I'll submit firefox-69.0.1-2 as an update when it finishes.
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