Re: [Tools-discuss] over-zealous mail-send notification caching?

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Tue, 11 August 2020 14:13 UTC

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:13:35 -0700
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>
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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] over-zealous mail-send notification caching?
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Hi Henrik,

I'm on Chrome 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit) for Linux.

-Ben

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 02:26:44PM +0200, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> We've had one other report about this, but a straightforward attempt at
> reproducing it in the development environment hasn't been successful.
> Which browser version (or versions) do you use?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Henrik
> 
> On 2020-08-11 02:59, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm not really sure the best way to describe this, but recently (the past
> > few days, maybe) I've been getting a lot more of the yellow "Email was
> > sent" notices at the top of the page after I perform an operation that
> > sends mail.  In particular, I'll get the notice about mail sent by a
> > previous operation (just now I got some from as far back as August 7th),
> > and having previously dismissed any given notification does not seem to
> > prevent me from seeing it again after a subsequent operation.
> > 
> > Having the whole page taken up by "Email was sent" notices is a bit
> > distracting :)
> > 
> > I'm not sure how much more information is needed for an actionable report;
> > I'll try to take better notes as to whether I only see this after an action
> > that itself generates an email (vs other page loads).  Possibly relatedly
> > (to the over-zealous caching), I have been seeing sporadic instances where
> > doing something that sends mail (possibly only entering a ballot position,
> > but I'm not 100% sure) leaves me at a page other than the page I was coming
> > from (i.e., some other document entirely).  Perhaps a common thread is that
> > I have multiple datatracker tabs open and I've done some other operation in
> > between starting to ballot and finishing, and the operation in the other
> > tab overwrites the per-tab state for where to send me back to?  This has
> > been happening for longer than the overly persistent "Email was sent"
> > notices, though -- months, probably.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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