[AIRAVATA-2165] In Firefox, portal pages are loaded twice more, with errors

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17
• Assignee: Marcus Christie
• Reporter: Marcus Christie
• Created: 13/Oct/16 13:12
• Updated: 28/Dec/16 15:51
• Resolved: 28/Dec/16 15:51

Description

In Firefox (doesn't seem to affect Safari or Chrome), every time a portal page loads, the page gets loaded again, twice.

I tracked this down to this part of the web page

<!-- Jira Issue Collector - Request Feature -->
<script type="text/javascript"
        src=""></script>


<script type="text/javascript"
        src=""></script>

Apparently the empty src path is interpreted as meaning that the current URL should be loaded as a script.

Since the web page is loaded into a <script> tag, the browser tries to interpret it as JavaScript but fails, so I also see this in the console

09:04:27.443 SyntaxError: expected expression, got '<'1dashboard:1
09:04:27.891 SyntaxError: expected expression, got '<'1dashboard:1

For the most part this is harmless. But since it loads the whole page 3 times, it takes about 3 times as long to load each page. Also, some of the JavaScript only runs on the $(document).ready(..) event, and this code won't run until the page is loaded 3 times, during which time interactive portions of the page are unavailable.

I verified that this bug affects seagrid.org as well.

I'll post a screenshot of the network requests which will show the loading of the page three times as well as the console errors.

AIRAVATA-2165_firefox_network.png

Issue Links

• is related to: AIRAVATA-2216 Sharing button doesn't work on Create Project when page hasn't finished loading
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #57