Firestore read not working for multi-page app in Safari private mode

[gunnarmein-ts]

Operating System

macOS 14.2

Browser Version

Safari 17.2.1

Firebase SDK Version

10.1

Firebase SDK Product:

Firestore

Describe your project's tooling

HTML/TypeScript app built with esbuild

Describe the problem

We have a document shell (index.html) and the actual document editor (document.html). Both initialize Firebase auth. We use signingWithPopup and our subdomain is our config auth domain. We can sign in successfully on index.html, but transitioning to document.html, the first call to getDoc() will not resolve until some ridiculous time later (I noticed it had resolved after I took the dogs for a walk). Meanwhile, a couple of promises were rejected:

[Warning] [2024-01-11T16:45:26.104Z] @firebase/app: – "Firebase: Error thrown when reading from IndexedDB. Original error: Error looking up record in object store by key range. (app/idb-get)." (document-bundle.js, line 142)
[Error] Unhandled Promise Rejection: AbortError: AbortError
error (document-bundle.js:1541)

and another one, both by the heartbeat service.

This works fine in Chrome. I cannot say whether it works in Safari. It becomes an issue because when Safari is automated (by Selenium in our case), it will only launch in a private window now, making all of our Safari tests fail.

Steps and code to reproduce issue

• Write firebase app with 2 html pages
• Open Safari private window
• sign in on page one
• load page 2
• read doc from firestore db (the doc is not protected by auth or identity, it is marked "allow read;" in firestore.rules)
  -> hangs for a long time (deadlock?)

[gunnarmein-ts]

Could be related to #7890

[gunnarmein-ts]

Completely giving up on persistentLocalCache (not just the persistentMultipleTabManager) for Safari seems to be a workaround.

[dconeybe]

Drive-by comment: Note that IndexedDb is typically not available in "private" or "incognito" tabs. So Firestore persistence won't work in such an environment. That being said, it should gracefully fall back to memory persistence (i.e. the default persistence mode) so there may be a bug here.

[diginikkari]

Getting this error also in normal mode (non private) with Safari (Version 17.2.1 (19617.1.17.11.12)). Firebase version 10.7.1.

[gunnarmein-ts]

Getting this error also in normal mode (non private) with Safari (Version 17.2.1 (19617.1.17.11.12)). Firebase version 10.7.1.

I find that once this error happens, I need to shut Safari down or nothing - private or public - will work again.

[cherylEnkidu]

Hi @gunnarmein-ts and @diginikkari ,

I try to reproduce the issue with the same MacOS, Safari, Firebase version but did not succeed. If you are still experiencing this issue, could you please provide a minimum repo app?

[gunnarmein-ts]

cherylEnkidu I can do it this week, but not today. Thanks for looking into it!