Washington post crashing

[ryanbr]

Description

Visiting https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/27/snl-brings-back-alec-baldwin-take-trump-supporters/ with sheilds on, will cause the Brave to crash.

Steps to Reproduce

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/27/snl-brings-back-alec-baldwin-take-trump-supporters/
2. Open and refresh a few times, click on the header and a few articles to show crash.
3. The browser will redraw the screen, and eventually crashing it.

Actual result:

Hard exit, a crash.

Expected result:

Not to crash.

Reproduces how often:

Was seen by myself, and another user https://community.brave.com/t/washington-post/89412/2

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version 0.70.121 Chromium: 78.0.3904.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? No.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? No

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Yes
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No

Miscellaneous Information:

I believe the script https://www.washingtonpost.com/notification-sw.js is causing the issue. If you enable UBO, with sheilds on, it seems to stop the crashing. the moment you whitelist @@||washingtonpost.com/notification-sw.js the browser will start crashing when you browse on wpo.

[bsclifton]

Having some trouble reproducing this... @ryanbr do you need to be logged in? As a guest, I browsed a bunch of articles and now I'm getting the paywall (so hard to test further, without clearing cookies, etc)

[ryanbr]

Maybe an extension issue, just investigating.

[ryanbr]

Yeah, it was an extension issue. "Bypass Paywalls" extension was causing the crash.