vimb is crashing when visiting https://nextjs.org

[yashasolutions]

Steps to reproduce

$ vimb https://nextjs.org/

Expected behaviour

Loading the site

Actual behaviour

Error message at bottom webview crashed on https://nextjs.org/

Debug info

Version:         3.6.0-24-gc626ab2
WebKit compile:  2.24.2
WebKit run:      2.24.2
GTK compile:     3.24.4
GTK run:         3.24.4
libsoup compile: 2.64.1
libsoup run:     2.64.1
Extension dir:   /usr/local/lib/vimb

Possible reasons for error

I have the same issue with surf (who's also based on webkit) Could be the version of webkit that need upgrade. Same site works fine in FF68, or Chrome

[fanglingsu]

@yashasolutions I can not reproduce the crash with

Version:         3.6.0-24-gc626ab2
WebKit compile:  2.30.4
WebKit run:      2.30.4
GTK compile:     3.24.24
GTK run:         3.24.24
libsoup compile: 2.72.0
libsoup run:     2.72.0
Extension dir:   /usr/lib/vimb

So it might be related to the webkit version. If you run vimb from CLI you might get additional information about the reason or you might get a coredumb of the crashed webextension.

[jjakob]

I and another user had a problem on Gentoo with the WebkitWebProcess crashing on various sites that was reported in a webkit bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222358 There is a workaround in the bug report that works great, by just exporting JavaScriptCoreUseJIT=0 or JSC_useBaselineJIT=false. I've added that to my .bashrc and I have no more crashing webkit since then. Maybe your issue is the same.

[jjakob]

That bug was marked as a duplicate of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222805 It seems like it's caused by webkit-gtk javascript JIT needing the SSE4 instruction that isn't present on older CPUs.

[fennewald]

I'm getting this issue with linkedin.com, most recent webkit installed. Here's my bug-info:

WebKit compile:  2.32.1
WebKit run:      2.32.1
GTK compile:     3.24.29
GTK run:         3.24.29
libsoup compile: 2.72.0
libsoup run:     2.72.0
Extension dir:   /usr/local/lib/vimb

Setting JavaScriptCoreUseJIT or JSC_useBaselineJIT does not help. When I spawn vimb from the console, I get the following error: (vimb-raw:8634): GLib-CRITICAL **: 14:50:25.263: Source ID 46 was not found when attempting to remove it

This seems like it may be a seperate issue. If asked, I will open up a seperate issue.

[jjakob]

Are you using Gentoo? I tried 2.32.1 but had freezing issues with it. It didn't crash but just froze on pages. I'd say it's a WebKit issue, as 2.30.6 works fine with the same version of vimb.

[fennewald]

@jjakob nope, I'm on void linux, but I didn't install vimb through any package manager, just did it from source

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