[Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat oddities with minified resources in 60.2.0

[f***@sharklasers.com]

Hello,

I am using GuixSD and its IceCat version was recently upgraded to 60.2.0. I found, then, that a lot of websites were broken and did not behave like they did before the update (and like they do in other browsers)—and since, I have discovered the one thing they all have in common—whatever features were broken depended on minified CSS or JavaScript that had all of the script in one line. I found that I could get minified CSS to function as normal by editing it in the Style Editor, even by just adding a space somewhere or editing a comment—implying that IceCat does, like Firefox of the same version, have support for long lines of code, it just does not respond correctly when they are loaded.

I continued to encounter this behavior even with all of the privacy settings on the front page turned off and all remaining extensions (the LibreJS compatibility and HTTPS everywhere extensions) disabled.

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[bill-auger]

bugs in any program that was installed using the package manager of
your distro are almost always best reported to the distro - have you
tried the icecat built by GNU?

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.2.0/

also, note that this is an alpha release - that means it is probably
buggy and your distro probably should not be distributing it yet

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[Mike Gerwitz]

Post by f***@sharklasers.com
I am using GuixSD and its IceCat version was recently upgraded to 60.2.0. I
found, then, that a lot of websites were broken and did not behave like they
did before the update

Mark Weaver made a couple of important fixes yesterday for the Guix
package. Please give it another try.

[Mart Rootamm]

That's quite an interesting observation, because I have occasionally had a
very similar problem with pre-webextension Gecko-based browsers, whereby
the browser would encounter certain minified CSS, and would then hang with
100% CPU, and RAM usage getting higher and higher, for which reason I've
had to force-stop the browser processes.

Often, it's been some font file, or some JavaScript that's been the culprit
instead, but not always.

The only remedy was to find the offending file by blocking all types of
SCRIPT,FONT,CSS in classic NoScript's Application Boundaries Enforcer
(ABE), and to test which type of file, and then which particular file has
been acting up so much. After that, the hang-inducing file could be blocked
individually; best even with a partial pattern match, or a regular
expression in NoScript's ABE rules to prevent newer versions of the same
file from being blocked.

Alas, I have not seen the ABE configuration UI in webextension NoScript,
nor any other complex, or granular and detailed ways of configuring the
new-type NoScript.

-M.

Post by f***@sharklasers.com

Post by f***@sharklasers.com
I am using GuixSD and its IceCat version was recently upgraded to

60.2.0. I

Post by f***@sharklasers.com
found, then, that a lot of websites were broken and did not behave like

they

Post by f***@sharklasers.com
did before the update

Mark Weaver made a couple of important fixes yesterday for the Guix
package. Please give it another try.
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[f***@sharklasers.com]

Hello,

So far, I've confirmed IceCat with minified resources to be working now as I expected on the pages I tested.

Thank you,
from original reporter





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