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Description

I made an edit to one of my notes. After switching to another note and back, my edit was gone.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open firefox. Open NC, Open Notes app, Open some note. Make an edit. -> A blue dot appears at the check mark symbol in upper right corner. Also an asterisk symbol appears next to the note name on the left side. That seems to be necessary for the bug to happen. Sometimes only one of these two things happen. In that case, the bug does not happen.
  2. Switch to another program (e.g. Word. Firefox is not visible anymore). Wait > 30 seconds
  3. Switch back to firefox. Astersik and blue dot disappeared.
  4. Make another edit. This time, only the asterisk symbol appears. Click the checkmark symbol "to be save" (but it does not help)
  5. Switch to another note and back. The edit to the first note is lost.

Switching to another windows program seems really necessary. Keeping focus on firefox prevents the bug.

Firefox itself realizes, that something is wrong. If I try to switch to another page completely, it gives a warning:
Image

It's browser independent. Could reproduct it in
Edge
Version 130.0.2849.56 (Offizielles Build) (64-Bit)
and Chrome
Version 130.0.6723.70 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit)

I could reproduc it with the text app, outside 'notes'.
Maybe its already described here:
https://github.com/nextcloud/text/issues/3899

Screenshots

don't have

Server

(hosted by Hetzner)

  • Notes app version: 4.11.0
  • Nextcloud version: 29.0.5 - 29.0.5.1
  • OS server : Linux 5.15.0-112-generic #122-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 23 07:48:21 UTC 2024 x86_64
  • Web server: nginx/1.25.3 (fpm-fcgi)
  • PHP version: 8.2.22
  • Database: mysql 10.5.26

Nextcloud configuration:

## Server configuration detail

Operating system: Linux 5.15.0-112-generic #122-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 23 07:48:21 UTC 2024 x86_64

Webserver: nginx/1.25.3 (fpm-fcgi)

Database: mysql 10.5.26

PHP version: 8.2.22

Modules loaded: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, filter, hash, iconv, json, mbstring, SPL, session, PDO, pdo_sqlite, bz2, posix, random, readline, Reflection, standard, SimpleXML, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, mysqlnd, cgi-fcgi, apcu, bcmath, Phar, exif, ftp, gd, gmp, imagick, imap, intl, ldap, maxminddb, memcached, mysqli, pcntl, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, redis, smbclient, soap, sodium, sysvsem, zip, libsmbclient, Zend OPcache

Nextcloud version: 29.0.5 - 29.0.5.1

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install:

Where did you install Nextcloud from: unknown

Signing status

[]

List of activated apps 
Enabled:
 - activity: 2.21.1
 - admin_audit: 1.19.0
 - bruteforcesettings: 2.9.0
 - calendar: 4.7.16
 - circles: 29.0.0-dev
 - cloud_federation_api: 1.12.0
 - collectives: 2.14.4
 - comments: 1.19.0
 - contacts: 6.0.0
 - contactsinteraction: 1.10.0
 - dav: 1.30.1
 - federatedfilesharing: 1.19.0
 - federation: 1.19.0
 - files: 2.1.1
 - files_downloadlimit: 2.0.0
 - files_external: 1.21.0
 - files_markdown: 2.4.1
 - files_pdfviewer: 2.10.0
 - files_reminders: 1.2.0
 - files_sharing: 1.21.0
 - files_texteditor: 2.15.1
 - files_trashbin: 1.19.0
 - files_versions: 1.22.0
 - firstrunwizard: 2.18.0
 - lookup_server_connector: 1.17.0
 - nextcloud_announcements: 1.18.0
 - notes: 4.11.0
 - notifications: 2.17.0
 - notify_push: 0.7.0
 - oauth2: 1.17.0
 - password_policy: 1.19.0
 - photos: 2.5.0
 - privacy: 1.13.0
 - provisioning_api: 1.19.0
 - recognize: 7.1.0
 - recommendations: 2.1.0
 - related_resources: 1.4.0
 - settings: 1.12.0
 - sharebymail: 1.19.0
 - support: 1.12.0
 - survey_client: 1.17.0
 - suspicious_login: 7.0.0
 - systemtags: 1.19.0
 - text: 3.10.1
 - theming: 2.4.0
 - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.18.0
 - twofactor_totp: 11.0.0-dev
 - updatenotification: 1.19.1
 - user_status: 1.9.0
 - viewer: 2.3.0
 - weather_status: 1.9.0
 - workflowengine: 2.11.0
Disabled:
 - dashboard: 7.0.0
 - documentserver_community: 0.1.18
 - dokuwiki: 1.0.3
 - encryption
 - files_downloadactivity: 1.17.0
 - files_rightclick: 0.15.1
 - files_trackdownloads: 1.11.0
 - logreader: 2.13.0
 - richdocuments: 8.4.8
 - serverinfo: 1.18.0
 - user_ldap
 - user_usage_report: 1.13.1
 - xwiki: 0.1.2
Configuration (config/config.php) 
{
    "skeletondirectory": "\/var\/www\/html\/themes\/hetzner\/skeleton",
    "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
    "apps_paths": [
        {
            "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/apps",
            "url": "\/apps",
            "writable": false
        },
        {
            "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps",
            "url": "\/custom_apps",
            "writable": true
        }
    ],
    "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "trusted_domains": [
        "nx17688.your-storageshare.de"
    ],
    "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbtype": "mysql",
    "version": "29.0.5.1",
    "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/nx17688.your-storageshare.de",
    "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbport": "",
    "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
    "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
    "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "installed": true,
    "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "default_language": "de_DE",
    "default_locale": "de_DE",
    "redis": {
        "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "port": "6379",
        "timeout": "1.5",
        "dbindex": "0"
    },
    "filelocking.enabled": true,
    "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
    "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
    "mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
    "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "log_type": "syslog",
    "syslog_tag": "nextcloud-nx17688",
    "simpleSignUpLink.shown": false,
    "upgrade.disable-web": true,
    "updatechecker": false,
    "theme": "hetzner",
    "mail_smtpauth": 1,
    "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
    "mail_smtpsecure": "tls",
    "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "updater.release.channel": "stable",
    "maintenance": false,
    "appstoreurl": "https:\/\/apps.your-storageshare.de",
    "loglevel": 2,
    "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
    "files_external_allow_create_new_local": false,
    "updater.server.url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "app_install_overwrite": [
        "files_markdown",
        "files_rightclick",
        "files_texteditor"
    ],
    "allow_local_remote_servers": true,
    "maintenance_window_start": 3,
    "davstorage.request_timeout": 10800
}

Cron Configuration: Array
(
[backgroundjobs_mode] => cron
[lastcron] => 1730123824
)

External storages: yes

External storage configuration 
No mounts configured

Encryption: no

User-backends:

  • OC\User\Database

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Client

  • OS: Win11 Home / 23H2
  • Browser: Firefox 131.0.3

Log files

Pretty sure, I cannot access them, as my NC is hosted by Hetzner. If I ask them nicely via support ticket, I maybe could get a piece of it.

Edit

  1. I can reproduce the bug now. I changed the "Steps to reproduce" section above.
  2. Included configuration info. Included 3 of my later posts here and deleted the separate posts.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the issue in the Notes app with the listed browser-backgrounding and note-switching steps, then compare it with the text app; done means edits remain saved after returning to the browser and switching notes.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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