How it's supposed to work:
- Go to Special:Notifications.
- See the notifications.
What's happening now:
- Go to Special:Notifications.
- See the gray striped "maybe I'm still trying to load something" bar.
- Twiddle thumbs.
- Maybe see the notifications, or maybe not.
I see this fairly often in Firefox 49 and 50 on macOS Sierra 10.12.1. @Jpgordon is seeing it in multiple web browsers (also on a Mac).
Send us your performance traces
If you're encountering this issue and would like to help us troubleshoot the underlying causes, please copy the text below and paste it into a new comment on this task, and fill in each section.
- URL: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?safemode=1
- Browser and version: (e.g. Firefox 60)
- OS: e.g. Ubuntu 18.04
- CPU: e.g. i5 dual-core
- RAM: e.g. 8 GB
- Number of alerts: e.g. 99+
- Number of notices: e.g. 76
- Observations: Please include any comments or observations you have.
Performance trace:
Please ensure that &safemode=1 is added to your URL before doing the performance trace.
Chrome(/ium) performance trace instructions
- Right click anywhere on the page and choose "Inspect". A panel will open on the right-hand side or bottom of the screen.
- In the inspector menu bar, click the three dots icon at right, select settings, make sure “Disable cache (while DevTools is open)” is selected.ma
- Along the top line of this panel, you'll see Elements, Console, Sources, etc. Choose Performance (if the panel is on the side, you may need to click the >> button to get there)
- In the bar below "Performance", you'll see a record button and a reload button. Click the record button.
- A recording will start. Click on the "Your alerts" button, then click out of the pop up after it loads. Click on the "Your notices" button, wait for the notifications to load, then click out of the popup. Click the blue "Stop" button to stop the recording.
- In the bar where you found the record and reload buttons, click the down arrow button ("save profile")
- This opens a dialog that will let you save your recording as a .json file.
- Do not upload this file to Phabricator. Please email it to kharlan [at] wikimedia.org and put T153011 in the subject
Firefox instructions
- Go to the watchlist
- Right click anywhere on the page and choose "Inspect element". A panel will open on the bottom of the screen.
- Along the top line of this panel, you'll see Inspector, Console, Debugger, etc. Choose Performance.
- Click the "Start recording performance" in the middle. A recording will start. Click on the "Your alerts" button, then click out of the pop up after it loads. Click on the "Your notices" button, wait for the notifications to load, then click out of the popup. Click the blue "Stop" button to stop the recording.
- On the left, you will see a bar with "Recording #1", and a small "save" link next to it. Click the "save" link.
- This opens a dialog that will let you save your recording as a .json file.
- Do not upload this file to Phabricator. Please email it to kharlan [at] wikimedia.org and put T153011 in the subject
