Self-hosted Gitlab makes firefox freeze when doing "/" search

General
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It happens four to five time a day, when going back to gitlab to check for MR or repository, doing a “/” search and entering 3 characters max inevitably makes tab crash.

Firefox stays up, some button still respond but most of become unresponsive (other firefox window seems unaffected).

I tried to debug with about:processes without success.

On a mac m2 pro, self-hosted gitlab v17.5.5 (non-container), firefox 141.0.3.

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I have been seeing the same issue now for a couple weeks as well. This has been across a few versions of firefox now.

Mac M3 Pro, onprem v17.5.5-ee, firefox 142.0 (extensions: uBlock Origin, Firefox Multi-Account Containers [gitlab tabs not containerized])

Notes:

  • It doesn’t always occur immediately after an upgrade/restart of firefox, but usually starts up pretty quickly
  • Issue has been reproduced in private browser as well

Repro and troubleshooting:

Firefox doesn’t completely do 1:1 with tabs to processes/threads, so when the crash does occur, the entire process gets borked, which takes any other tabs using the same process with it, including non-gitlab tabs

  • about:processes shows the process that’s messed up, it hits 100% CPU usage and you can see the affected tabs. I’ve tried killing that process which leaves some of the other affected tabs in limbo as well.
    • The only way I’ve resolved affected tabs, after killing the affected process, find each tab with the circular spinning logo, right click “duplicate tab” which loads the page in a new/different process then I can kill the original “hung” tab.
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I just updated to 142 and still getting crash.

4

I would suggest opening an issue here: Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab since Gitlab devs don’t read forum posts, so to get it fixed would require opening an issue for it.

5

I’m getting this issue after a recent upgrade and it’s super frustrating. Any updates? I can an issue as @iwalker suggested.

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I’ve created an issue here: Firefox freezes on "/" hotkey repository search with self-hosted gitlab (#581217) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab