Bug 236764

Summary:	[GTK] WebKitWebProcess stops refreshing the screen
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Andres Gomez Garcia <agomez>
Component:	WebKitGTK	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	Normal	CC:	bugs-noreply
Priority:	P2
Version:	Other
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified

Description Andres Gomez Garcia 2022-02-17 02:30:49 PST

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.34.4-1~deb11u1 from Debian bullseye

Using MiniBrowser (also reproducible with Epiphany), go to a rich web like htts://twitter.com

Start scrolling down the web page. Eventually, the page won't scroll any more. However, it is clear that the pointer is reacting to the content of the screen and also he bottom hint with the destination URLs when passing on top of links.

If clicking on some of the links, the location bar also reacts and it genuinely seems like we are navigating to the new URL, but no update happens in the screen.

If we type a new URL in the location bar, like https://www.igalia.com, this time, the WebView gets refreshed with the new destination.

This is easily reproducible and with different webs.

Comment 1 Andres Gomez Garcia 2022-02-19 03:45:37 PST

Not reproducible with:

WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1

Comment 2 Andres Gomez Garcia 2022-02-19 03:46:14 PST

I'm experiencing something similar with Chromium too so it may be not WebKit specific.

Still trying to figure out the proper component if I need to migrate this bug ...

Comment 3 Andres Gomez Garcia 2022-03-15 02:49:56 PDT

This is clearly something that is happening beyond WKGTK.

I still don't know which is the faulty piece and whether this an upstream or distro bug but I can close this as INVALID by now.