Ubuntu
webbrowser-app package

Clearing browsing history while a new tab view is open crashes the browser

Bug #1525937 reported by Olivier Tilloy on 2015-12-14

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Canonical System Image	Fix Released	High	Bill Filler	Canonical System Image ww02-2016 "ota9"
	webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Olivier Tilloy

Bug Description

This happens on phones and on desktop while in narrow mode, wide mode is unaffected.

Steps to reproduce:
- open a new tab, verify that there are top sites displayed (in a grid in the bottom half of the page)
- open the settings from the drawer menu, go to "Privacy & permissions", tap "Clear Browsing History"
- a confirmation dialog shows up, confirm

Expected result: the navigation history is cleared, and the user is back on the "Privacy & permissions" settings screen

Current result: the browser crashes. See attached backtrace.

Related branches

lp:~osomon/webbrowser-app/fix-crash-newtabview

Merged into lp:webbrowser-app at revision 1310

Ugo Riboni (community): Approve on 2015-12-15

PS Jenkins bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2015-12-15

Revision history for this message

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2015-12-14:

bt.txt Edit (14.0 KiB, text/plain)

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-12-14:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2015-12-14

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2015-12-15

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2016-01-04

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee:	nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → ww02-2016
status:	New → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-01-05:

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20151222.1-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20151222.1-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Add keyboard shorcuts for 'next' (Ctrl+G) and 'previous'
    (Ctrl+Shift+G) while in find-in-page mode. (LP: #1522152)
  * Do not allow interacting with tabs and the chrome while the settings
    page is shown. (LP: #1524353)
  * Fix a crash when clearing the navigation history while the new tab
    view is open. (LP: #1525937)
  * Fix deleting multiple domains from the history view. Add unit tests
    for the HistoryView component. (LP: #1527144)
  * Fix some obvious issues in PreviewManager. (LP: #1519019)
  * Fix the tab preview sometimes covering the tab chrome, in the tabs
    view. Offset tab previews by 1px to cover the semi-transparent
    horizontal line at the bottom of the tab chrome asset. (LP:
    #1520624)
  * Recognize openoffice and MS-office file formats as documents, now
    that the document viewer app knows how to render them. (LP:
    #1523452)
  * Update translation template.
  * Use the screen size (diagonal in millimeters) to determine which
    default UA string and which UA overrides to use. An empirical
    threshold of 19cm is being used, it is subject to further
    adjustments. (LP: #1504084)