[BUG] In Chromium using fill on textarea with long text, takes more than 5 seconds (and destroys something in background)

[gladykov]

System info

• Playwright Version: v1.33
• Operating System: Endevour OS (Kernel 6.3) + Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
• Browser: Chromium

Source code

fill.zip

Steps

• In runMe.ts setup root variable with path, where you extracted files
• Run

Expected

• Textarea on index.html is filled immediately after file contents are read into memory

Actual

• It takes 7 seconds on my laptop to fill it with 28KB of text

And now the funny part, for which I do not have test case: Above creates some unexpected state, which causes failure of web page elements (in publishing Confluence page flow):

• clicking Publish will cause web page error "Unable to publish"
• there is no clear indication of failure in console
• network requests are firing
• looks like regression in Confluence software, as it worked properly for one month
• Still bug exists ONLY when using playright fill method + big text

Notes

• Both above bugs will not occur when using shorter text with fill method
• When same text will be pasted (Ctrl+V) manually, during open playwright browser session, publish action will work properly (so it is not caused by combination of browser flags and web page)
• Our real world scenario use case uses iframes
• Using type method to type 28KB in textarea had even more destructive effect, as other buttons of UI stopped working (but not all of them, which is again something very peculiar)

TL:DR; Long text takes too long to fill textarea when using fill method and I suspect it creates some overflow state, which brakes some UI elements bindings; Using type method broke even more.

[dgozman]

I can reproduce. Input.insertText CDP command takes very long time. Needs debugging upstream.

[dgozman]

Upstream issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1451039.

[pavelfeldman]

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[gladykov]

Workaround for headless mode on Linux, by using Ctrl + V : https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/8114#issuecomment-2174229844