Sourcegraph: `Uncaught Error: Extension context invalidated` in content script after browser extension got updated

Created on 7 Jun 2019 · 4Comments · Source: sourcegraph/sourcegraph

Browser: Chrome Version 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I was reviewing https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/4403/files and whenever I hovered over a symbol I only got a spinner.

Opening the console I see the following error, multiple times:

Uncaught Error: Extension context invalidated.
    at Object.send (inject.bundle.js:149)
    at MessagePort.t.onmessage (inject.bundle.js:149)
send @ inject.bundle.js:149
t.onmessage @ inject.bundle.js:149

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mrnugget

Most helpful comment

I believe your extension got updated :) This occurs whenever the background page is reloaded, and a new browser extension version got deployed last night. Try a hard reload and let us know if this happens again.

lguychard on 7 Jun 2019

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lguychard on 7 Jun 2019

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Wow, yeah, hard reloading fixed it. Is there any way to catch this and let the user know?

mrnugget on 7 Jun 2019

We could explore listening to the onInstalled event (which is also fired on update), and disconnecting the stale content script + re-injecting when that happens. Some people have gone down that route.

lguychard on 7 Jun 2019

There seems to be a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55336841/288906

Or you can catch that error and suggest a reload