David Smith Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20150928004020

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to use view source from the context menu.



Actual results:

When attempting to view source (since the change to put it in a tab instead of a separate window), about 90% of the time nothing is loaded.  The tab is blank, and nothing is in the address bar.  Most of the time that it does work, it is the very first attempt to view source in a session; all subsequent attempts fail.

Restarting with addons disabled had no effect.

Restarting with Electrolysis disabled (and addons enabled) allowed view source to work 100% of the time.

Starting with a new temp profile always had view source work.

This profile was rebuilt from scratch just a couple months ago (July 14).


Expected results:

View source should always show the source code of the page.

	Loic
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

I tried with Nightly and it works. Maybe still bugged in DE. Could you test in Nightly, please.

	David Smith Reporter
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago

Installed Nightly: 20150928030206
Copied Profile for testing

Same behavior.

Reviewed modified profile settings, and was reminded of a potential consideration: process count.

I'd had the dom.ipc.processCount value set to 4.  Changing that back to 1 allowed the view source to work properly.

Creating a new temp profile, and setting the ipc count to 4 caused the view source to stop working.

So that's where the issue seems to step from.

	J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)
	Comment 3 • 9 years ago

I believe this is the same as bug 1165309.  Feel free to reopen if not.