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A Bug in Chrome 75 Caused Random Offline Pages

Mac Siri on June 28, 2019

Towards the end of May, we started to receive a lot of reports from DEV users that our Android App was giving them an Offline message even when the...
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kip

monopoly browser -> monopoly bugs ?

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Ben Halpern

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Michael Tharrington

Nice! Great write up!

So happy we know what's up with this. I know this one was giving you so major grief!

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Jean-Michel Plourde

The page saying dev.to is offline appears from time to tim on Firefox. Doth on my work computer and at home. Only happens if I'm in a tab on a different website and I try to acces dev.to. I then have to open a new tab to access the website. Anyone have this too ?

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ItsASine (Kayla)

I just went back to using the website in Chrome and figured my device was wrong :P Though good sleuthing to find it was a Chrome issue!

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Ohhhhhh, I remember this happening even when browsing to the website. Somehow (terribly of me) I hadn't noticed it wasn't going on until I saw this post.

Yay! It's fixed! \o/

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Jean-Michel Plourde

Yes. Thank you Daniel for the tip, I'll give it a try

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Flavien Lefebvre

The impact would have been reduced if the "app" wasn't a webview in the first place...

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Stefan Adams

How is it that the offline page was able to be presented? Isn't that just another normal GET request like the original that failed due to being "offline"?

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Mac Siri

Offline page is stored in service worker and is returned if a cache copy of said request doesn't exist or the request failed.

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Corey Alexander

Ahh thanks for the write up!

I can probably go back to using the App now!