www.obsessedgarage.com order page causes perma-hang.

[BenFenner]

Links below will likely cause Pale Moon to hang permanently. Do not click unless you are prepared.

I have a custom order at Obsessed Garage which is here:
[redacted obsessedgarage.com tracking URL]

But actually redirects properly to here:
[redacted account.obsessedgarage.com tracking URL]

The page has loaded correctly for me over the past 4-5 days or so since I placed the order, but now that I've upgraded to Pale Moon 32.5.1 (from 32.5.0 I believe) I am experiencing a complete application hang (Edit: unrelated timing, see next post). Ending the process is the only way I can recover. I have eMatrix, uBlockOrigin, and Pure URL installed but have disabled eMatrix on this domain for testing (and still seeing the issue).

I have gotten output from the browser console before the browser hangs, but it is probably not conclusive. See screenshot below.



I'm curious if anyone else can confirm. You should not need an account with this vendor to see the page in question.

This is on Windows 7 (64 bit) with 64-bit Pale Moon 32.5.1. I can try my Linux Mint machine next.

[BenFenner]

Well, I've tested with Linux Mint now which actually still had Pale Moon 32.5.0 installed. So I checked that version first and it hangs just the same. So it doesn't seem to be a change in Pale Moon after all, and is very likely a recent change in the web site itself. Of course I will report it to them, but a misbehaving site shouldn't cause the entire application to hang forever IMO so I'm still reporting things here.

And for context, this Linux install of Pale Moon doesn't have eMatrix or Pule URL installed at all, just uBlockOrigin as the only installed extension.

[moonbat]

Keep an unmodified empty profile around for testing broken websites and launch it from about:profiles so you don't have to leave your main profile. With mine I confirmed it hangs on 32.5.0, so it's not due to extensions or local settings.

[adoxa]

It's another display:grid issue. Here's a Modify HTTP Response filter to work around it.

Code: Select all

[["cdn.shopify.com",["/vendors.*\\.js/",["/(BlockStack:\".*? ).*? (.*?\")/","$1$2"]]]]

[BenFenner]

Ahh, thanks for the tip. With that info I've been able to read ~6 years worth of history on this situation via forum posts.
Maybe Shopify will ditch their new attempt at CSS Grid layout.
Maybe Pale Moon will get the resources needed to implement it.

I do wonder if there should be a graceful failure in this situation at least from Pale Moon. I wonder what it would take to avoid the full browser hang...

Off-topic:
I'll get back to my own web development work where we are happy to use an HTML table when a table is needed.

Although I will say it is hammered into web devs not to use tables for layout, since the web page won't progressively load. Once an HTML table is encountered, the entire thing must be loaded before any of it displays. So I understand the hesitance. But so many web devs have just forgotten the second half of the "rule" and avoid tables entirely even for actual tables. But of course there is CSS Flexbox...