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We're making good progress with the WebView rendering pipeline. The first issue to fix, which we've been looking at for the last couple of days, has been ensuring the layer manger is of the Client type, rather than the WebRender type. There's a new WEBRENDER_SOFTWARE feature that was introduced between ESR 78 and ESR 91 which is causing the trouble. In previous builds we disabled the WEBRENDER feature, but now with the new feature it's being enabled again. we need to ensure it's not enabled.

So the key questions to answer today are: how was WEBRENDER being disabled on ESR 78; and can we do something equivalent for WEBRENDER_SOFTWARE on ESR 91.

In the gfxConfigureManager.cpp file there are a couple of encouraging looking methods called gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender() and gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRenderSoftware(). These enable and disable the web renderer and software web renderer features respectively. Unsurprisingly, the latter is a new method for ESR 91, but the former is available in both ESR 78 and ESR 91, so I'll concentrate on that one first.

When looking at the code in these we also need to refer back to the initialisation method, because that's where some key variables are being created:

void gfxConfigManager::Init() {
[...]
  mFeatureWr = &gfxConfig::GetFeature(Feature::WEBRENDER);
[...]
  mFeatureWrSoftware = &gfxConfig::GetFeature(Feature::WEBRENDER_SOFTWARE);
[...]

So these two variables — mFeatureWr and mFeatureWrSoftware are feature objects which we can then use to enable and disable various features.

In ESR 78 the logic for whether mFeatureWr should be enabled or not is serpentine. I'm not going to try to work through by hand, rather I'll set the debugger on it and see which way it slithers.

Happily my debug session is still running from yesterday (I think it's been running for three days now), so I can continue straight with that. I'll include the full step-through, but there's a lot of it so don't feel you have to follow along, I'll summarise the important parts afterwards.

(gdb) delete break
Delete all breakpoints? (y or n) y
(gdb) b gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender
Breakpoint 5 at 0x7fb90a8d88: file gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp, line 194.
(gdb) r
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y
Starting program: /usr/bin/harbour-webview 
[...]
Thread 7 "GeckoWorkerThre" hit Breakpoint 5, mozilla::gfx::gfxConfigManager::
    ConfigureWebRender (this=this@entry=0x7fa7972598)
    at gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp:194
194     void gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender() {
(gdb) n
206       mFeatureWrCompositor->SetDefaultFromPref("gfx.webrender.compositor",
    true,
(gdb) n
209       if (mWrCompositorForceEnabled) {
(gdb) n
213       ConfigureFromBlocklist(nsIGfxInfo::FEATURE_WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR,
(gdb) n
219       if (!mHwStretchingSupport && mScaledResolution) {
(gdb) n
225       bool guardedByQualifiedPref = ConfigureWebRenderQualified();
(gdb) n
300     obj-build-mer-qt-xr/dist/include/nsTStringRepr.h: No such file or directory.
(gdb) p *mFeatureWr
$15 = {mDefault = {mMessage = '\000' <repeats 63 times>, mStatus =
    mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused}, mUser = {mMessage = '\000'
    <repeats 63 times>, mStatus = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused},
    mEnvironment = {mMessage = '\000' <repeats 63 times>,
    mStatus = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused}, mRuntime = {mMessage =
    '\000' <repeats 63 times>, mStatus = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused}, 
  mFailureId = {<nsTSubstring<char>> = {<mozilla::detail::nsTStringRepr<char>> =
    {mData = 0x7fbc7d4f42 <gNullChar> "", mLength = 0, mDataFlags =
    mozilla::detail::StringDataFlags::TERMINATED, mClassFlags =
    mozilla::detail::StringClassFlags::NULL_TERMINATED}, 
      static kMaxCapacity = 2147483637}, <No data fields>}}
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->GetValue()
$16 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()
$17 = false
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->mDefault.mStatus
$30 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->mRuntime.mStatus
$31 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) n
235       if (mWrEnvForceEnabled) {
(gdb) p mWrEnvForceEnabled
$18 = false
(gdb) n
237       } else if (mWrForceEnabled) {
(gdb) p mWrForceEnabled
$19 = false
(gdb) n
239       } else if (mFeatureWrQualified->IsEnabled()) {
(gdb) p mFeatureWrQualified->IsEnabled()
$20 = false
(gdb) n
253       if (mWrForceDisabled ||
(gdb) p mWrForceDisabled
$21 = false
(gdb) p mWrEnvForceDisabled
$22 = false
(gdb) p mWrQualifiedOverride.isNothing()
Cannot evaluate function -- may be inlined
(gdb) n
261       if (!mFeatureHwCompositing->IsEnabled()) {
(gdb) n
268       if (mSafeMode) {
(gdb) n
276       if (mIsWindows && !mIsWin10OrLater && !mDwmCompositionEnabled) {
(gdb) p mIsWindows
$23 = false
(gdb) p mIsWin10OrLater
$24 = false
(gdb) p mDwmCompositionEnabled
$25 = true
(gdb) n
283           NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("FEATURE_FAILURE_DEFAULT_OFF"));
(gdb) n
285       if (mFeatureD3D11HwAngle && mWrForceAngle) {
(gdb) n
301       if (!mFeatureWr->IsEnabled() && mDisableHwCompositingNoWr) {
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()
$26 = false
(gdb) p mDisableHwCompositingNoWr
$27 = false
(gdb) n
324           NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("FEATURE_FAILURE_DEFAULT_OFF"));
(gdb) n
326       if (mWrDCompWinEnabled) {
(gdb) n
334       if (!mWrPictureCaching) {
(gdb) n
340       if (!mFeatureWrDComp->IsEnabled() && mWrCompositorDCompRequired) {
(gdb) n
348       if (mWrPartialPresent) {
(gdb) n
gfxPlatform::InitWebRenderConfig (this=<optimized out>)
    at gfx/thebes/gfxPlatform.cpp:2733
2733      if (Preferences::GetBool("gfx.webrender.program-binary-disk", false)) {
(gdb) c
[...]

That's a bit too much detail there, but the key conclusion is that mFeatureWr (which represents the state of the WEBRENDER feature starts off disabled and the value is never changed. So by the end of the gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender() method the feature remains disabled. It's not changed anywhere else and so we're left with our layer manager being created as a Client layer manager, which is what we need.

We can see that it's set to disabled from the following sequence, copied from the full debugging session above:

(gdb) p mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()
$17 = false
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->mDefault.mStatus
$30 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->mRuntime.mStatus
$31 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused

Features are made from multiple layers of states. Each layer can be either set or unused. To determine the state of a feature each layer is examined in order until one of them is set to something other than Unused. The first unused layer provides the actual state of the feature.

The layers are the following:

1. mRuntime
2. mUser
3. mEnvironment
4. mStatus
5. mDefault

The mDefault layer provides a backstop: if all other layers are Unused then whatever value the mDefault layer takes is the value of the feature (even if that value is Unused).

So, to summarise and bring all this together, the mFeatureWr feature is enabled if all of the following hold:

1. mFeatureWr->mDefault.mStatus is set to anything other than Unused.
2. The mStatus value of one of the other layers is set to something other than Unused and is either Available or ForceEnabled.

Looking at the values from the debugging session above, we can therefore see exactly why mFeatureWr->IsEnabled() is returning false: it's simply never had any other value set on it.

Now we need to compare this to the process for ESR 91. Before we get into it it's worth noting that the WEBRENDER feature in ESR 91 is also (correctly) disabled, so we may not see any big differences here with this. Let's see.

Again, I can continue with the debugging session I've been running for the last few days:

(gdb) delete break
Delete all breakpoints? (y or n) y
(gdb) b gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender
Breakpoint 9 at 0x7ff138d708: file gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp, line 215.
(gdb) b gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRenderSoftware
Breakpoint 10 at 0x7ff138d41c: file gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp, line 125.
(gdb) r
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y
Starting program: /usr/bin/harbour-webview 
[...]
Thread 7 "GeckoWorkerThre" hit Breakpoint 9, mozilla::gfx::gfxConfigManager::
    ConfigureWebRender (this=this@entry=0x7fd7da72f8)
    at gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp:215
215     void gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender() {
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()
$13 = false
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->mDefault.mStatus
$14 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->mRuntime.mStatus
$15 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused

So as we go in to the ConfigureWebRender() method the value is set to disabled. This is the same as for ESR 78.

(gdb) n
230       mFeatureWrCompositor->SetDefaultFromPref("gfx.webrender.compositor",
    true,
(gdb)
233       if (mWrCompositorForceEnabled) {
(gdb)
237       ConfigureFromBlocklist(nsIGfxInfo::FEATURE_WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR,
(gdb)
243       if (!mHwStretchingSupport.IsFullySupported() && mScaledResolution) {
(gdb)
253       ConfigureWebRenderSoftware();
(gdb) n

At this point we're jumping in to the ConfigureWebRenderSoftware() method. We're going to continue into it, since we're interested to know what happens there. But it's worth noting that this is a departure from what happens on ESR 78.

Thread 7 "GeckoWorkerThre" hit Breakpoint 10, mozilla::gfx::gfxConfigManager::
    ConfigureWebRenderSoftware (this=this@entry=0x7fd7da72f8)
    at gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp:125
125     void gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRenderSoftware() {
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->IsEnabled()
$16 = false
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mDefault.mStatus
$17 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mDefault.mStatus
$18 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mRuntime.mStatus
$19 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused

Going in we also see that the mFeatureWrSoftware feature is disabled.

(gdb) n
128       mFeatureWrSoftware->EnableByDefault();
(gdb) n
134       if (mWrSoftwareForceEnabled) {
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->IsEnabled()
$20 = true
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mDefault.mStatus
$21 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Available
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mRuntime.mStatus
$22 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mUser.mStatus
$23 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mEnvironment.mStatus
$24 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Unused
(gdb) p mFeatureWrSoftware->mDefault.mStatus
$25 = mozilla::gfx::FeatureStatus::Available

But this is immediately switched to being enabled; in this case set as having a default value of Available. So far there have been no conditions on the execution, so we're guaranteed to reach this state every time. Let's continue.

(gdb) p mWrSoftwareForceEnabled
$33 = false
(gdb) n
136       } else if (mWrForceDisabled || mWrEnvForceDisabled) {
(gdb) p mWrForceDisabled
$26 = false
(gdb) p mWrEnvForceDisabled
$27 = false

Here there was an opportunity to disable the feature if either mWrForceDisabled or mWrEnvForceDisabled were set to true, but since both were set to false we skip over this possibility. This might be our way in to disabling it, so we may want to return to this. But let's continue on with the rest of the debugging for now.

(gdb) n
141       } else if (gfxPlatform::DoesFissionForceWebRender()) {
(gdb) n
145       if (!mHasWrSoftwareBlocklist) {
(gdb) p mHasWrSoftwareBlocklist
$28 = false

At this point the mHasWrSoftwareBlocklist variable is set to false which causes us to jump out of the ConfigureWebRenderSoftware() method early. So we'll return back up the stack to the ConfigureWebRender() method and continue from there.

(gdb) n
mozilla::gfx::gfxConfigManager::ConfigureWebRender
    (this=this@entry=0x7fd7da72f8)
    at gfx/config/gfxConfigManager.cpp:254
254       ConfigureWebRenderQualified();
(gdb) n
256       mFeatureWr->EnableByDefault();
(gdb) n
262       if (mWrSoftwareForceEnabled) {
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()
$29 = true
(gdb) n

Here we see another change from ESR 78. The mFeatureWr feature is enabled here. We already know it's ultimately disabled so we should keep an eye out for where that happens.

266       } else if (mWrEnvForceEnabled) {
(gdb) 
268       } else if (mWrForceDisabled || mWrEnvForceDisabled) {
(gdb)
275       } else if (mWrForceEnabled) {
(gdb) p mWrForceEnabled
$30 = false
(gdb) n
279       if (!mFeatureWrQualified->IsEnabled()) {
(gdb) p mFeatureWrQualified->IsEnabled()
$31 = false
(gdb) n
282         mFeatureWr->Disable(FeatureStatus::Disabled, "Not qualified",
(gdb) n
287       if (!mFeatureHwCompositing->IsEnabled()) {
(gdb) p mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()
$32 = false

So here it gets disabled again and the reason is because mFeatureWrQualified is disabled. Here's the comment text that goes alongside this in the code (the debugger skips these comments):

    // No qualified hardware. If we haven't allowed software fallback,
    // then we need to disable WR.

So we'll end up with this being disabled whatever happens. There's not much to see in the remainder of the method, but let's skip through the rest of the steps for completeness.

(gdb) n
293       if (mSafeMode) {
(gdb) n
302       if (mXRenderEnabled) {
(gdb) n
312       mFeatureWrAngle->EnableByDefault();
(gdb) n
313       if (mFeatureD3D11HwAngle) {
(gdb) n
335         mFeatureWrAngle->Disable(FeatureStatus::Unavailable,
    "OS not supported",
(gdb) n
339       if (mWrForceAngle && mFeatureWr->IsEnabled() &&
(gdb) n
347       if (!mFeatureWr->IsEnabled() && mDisableHwCompositingNoWr) {
(gdb) n
367       mFeatureWrDComp->EnableByDefault();
(gdb) n
368       if (!mWrDCompWinEnabled) {
(gdb) n
369         mFeatureWrDComp->UserDisable("User disabled via pref",
(gdb) n
373       if (!mIsWin10OrLater) {
(gdb) n
375         mFeatureWrDComp->Disable(FeatureStatus::Unavailable,
(gdb) n
380       if (!mIsNightly) {
(gdb) n
383         nsAutoString adapterVendorID;
(gdb) n
384         mGfxInfo->GetAdapterVendorID(adapterVendorID);
(gdb) n
385         if (adapterVendorID == u"0x10de") {
(gdb) n
383         nsAutoString adapterVendorID;
(gdb) n
396       mFeatureWrDComp->MaybeSetFailed(
(gdb) n
399       mFeatureWrDComp->MaybeSetFailed(mFeatureWrAngle->IsEnabled(),
(gdb) n
403       if (!mFeatureWrDComp->IsEnabled() && mWrCompositorDCompRequired) {
(gdb) n
411       if (mWrPartialPresent) {
(gdb) n
654     ${PROJECT}/obj-build-mer-qt-xr/dist/include/mozilla/StaticPrefList_gfx.h:
    No such file or directory.
(gdb) n
433       ConfigureFromBlocklist(nsIGfxInfo::FEATURE_WEBRENDER_SHADER_CACHE,
(gdb) n
435       if (!mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()) {
(gdb) n
436         mFeatureWrShaderCache->ForceDisable(FeatureStatus::Unavailable,
(gdb) n
441       mFeatureWrOptimizedShaders->EnableByDefault();
(gdb) n
442       if (!mWrOptimizedShaders) {
(gdb) n
446       ConfigureFromBlocklist(nsIGfxInfo::FEATURE_WEBRENDER_OPTIMIZED_SHADERS,
(gdb) n
448       if (!mFeatureWr->IsEnabled()) {
(gdb) n
449         mFeatureWrOptimizedShaders->ForceDisable(FeatureStatus::Unavailable,
(gdb) n

And we're out of the method. So that's it: we can see that mFeatureWr is disabled here, as expected. However when it comes to mFeatureWrSoftware it's a different story. The value is enabled by default; to get it disabled we'll need to ensure one of mWrForceDisabled or mWrEnvForceDisabled is set to true.

Both of these are set in the initialisation method, like this:

void gfxConfigManager::Init() {
[...]
  mWrForceDisabled = StaticPrefs::gfx_webrender_force_disabled_AtStartup();
[...]
  mWrEnvForceDisabled = gfxPlatform::WebRenderEnvvarDisabled();
[...]

Here's the code that creates the former:

ONCE_PREF(
  "gfx.webrender.force-disabled",
   gfx_webrender_force_disabled,
   gfx_webrender_force_disabled_AtStartup,
  bool, false
)

That's from the autogenerated obj-build-mer-qt-xr/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList_gfx.h file. This is being generated from the gecko-dev/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml file, the relevant part of which looks like this:

# Also expose a pref to allow users to force-disable WR. This is exposed
# on all channels because WR can be enabled on qualified hardware on all
# channels.
- name: gfx.webrender.force-disabled
  type: bool
  value: false
  mirror: once

The latter is set using an environment variable:

/*static*/
bool gfxPlatform::WebRenderEnvvarDisabled() {
  const char* env = PR_GetEnv("MOZ_WEBRENDER");
  return (env && *env == '0');
}

Okay, we've reached the end of this piece of investigation. What's clear is that there may not be any Sailfish-specific code for disabling the web render layer manager because it's being disabled by default anyway.

For the software web render layer manager we could set the MOZ_WEBRENDER environment variable to 0 to force it to be disabled and this will be handy for testing. But in the longer term we should probably put some code into sailfish-browser to explicitly set the gfx.webrender.force-disabled static preference to true.

As I look in to this I discover something surprising. Even though web render is disabled by default, doing some grepping around the code threw the following up in the sailfish-browser code:

void DeclarativeWebUtils::setRenderingPreferences()
{
    SailfishOS::WebEngineSettings *webEngineSettings =
        SailfishOS::WebEngineSettings::instance();

    // Use external Qt window for rendering content
    webEngineSettings->setPreference(
        QString("gfx.compositor.external-window"), QVariant(true));
    webEngineSettings->setPreference(
        QString("gfx.compositor.clear-context"), QVariant(false));
    webEngineSettings->setPreference(
        QString("gfx.webrender.force-disabled"), QVariant(true));
    webEngineSettings->setPreference(
        QString("embedlite.compositor.external_gl_context"), QVariant(true));
}

This is fine for the browser, but it's not going to get executed for the WebView, so I'll need to set this in WebEngineSettings::initialize() as well. Thankfully, making this change turns out to be pretty straightforward:

diff --git a/lib/webenginesettings.cpp b/lib/webenginesettings.cpp
index de9e4b86..13b21d5b 100644
--- a/lib/webenginesettings.cpp
+++ b/lib/webenginesettings.cpp
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ void SailfishOS::WebEngineSettings::initialize()
     engineSettings->setPreference(QStringLiteral("intl.accept_languages"),
                                   QVariant::fromValue<QString>(langs));
 
+    // Ensure the web renderer is disabled
+    engineSettings->setPreference(QStringLiteral("gfx.webrender.force-disabled"),
+                                  QVariant(true));
+
     Silica::Theme *silicaTheme = Silica::Theme::instance();
 
     // Notify gecko when the ambience switches between light and dark

As well as this change I also had to amend the rawwebview.cpp file to accommodate some of the API changes I made earlier to gecko. I guess I've not built the sailfish-components-webview packages recently or this would have come up. Nevertheless the fix isn't anything too dramatic:

diff --git a/import/webview/rawwebview.cpp b/import/webview/rawwebview.cpp
index 1b1bb92a..2eab77f5 100644
--- a/import/webview/rawwebview.cpp
+++ b/import/webview/rawwebview.cpp
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public:
     ViewCreator();
     ~ViewCreator();
 
-    quint32 createView(const quint32 &parentId, const uintptr_t &parentBrowsingContext) override;
+    quint32 createView(const quint32 &parentId, const uintptr_t &parentBrowsingContext, bool hidden) override;
 
     static std::shared_ptr<ViewCreator> instance();
 
@@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ ViewCreator::~ViewCreator()
     SailfishOS::WebEngine::instance()->setViewCreator(nullptr);
 }
 
-quint32 ViewCreator::createView(const quint32 &parentId, const uintptr_t &parentBrowsingContext)
+quint32 ViewCreator::createView(const quint32 &parentId, const uintptr_t &parentBrowsingContext, bool hidden)
 {
     Q_UNUSED(parentBrowsingContext)
+    Q_UNUSED(hidden)
 
     for (RawWebView *view : views) {
         if (view->uniqueId() == parentId) {

Having fixed all this, I've built and transferred the new packages over to my phone. Now when I run the harbour-webview example app I get something quite different to the crash we were seeing before:

[defaultuser@Xperia10III gecko]$ harbour-webview 
[D] unknown:0 - QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment.
[D] main:30 - WebView Example
[D] main:44 - Using default start URL:  "https://www.flypig.co.uk/search/"
[D] main:47 - Opening webview
[D] unknown:0 - Using Wayland-EGL
library "libutils.so" not found
library "libcutils.so" not found
library "libhardware.so" not found
library "android.hardware.graphics.mapper@2.0.so" not found
library "android.hardware.graphics.mapper@2.1.so" not found
library "android.hardware.graphics.mapper@3.0.so" not found
library "android.hardware.graphics.mapper@4.0.so" not found
library "libc++.so" not found
library "libhidlbase.so" not found
library "libgralloctypes.so" not found
library "android.hardware.graphics.common@1.2.so" not found
library "libion.so" not found
library "libz.so" not found
library "libhidlmemory.so" not found
library "android.hidl.memory@1.0.so" not found
library "vendor.qti.qspmhal@1.0.so" not found
greHome from GRE_HOME:/usr/bin
libxul.so is not found, in /usr/bin/libxul.so
Created LOG for EmbedLiteTrace
[W] unknown:7 - file:///usr/share/harbour-webview/qml/harbour-webview.qml:7:30:
    Type WebViewPage unavailable 
         initialPage: Component { WebViewPage { } } 
                                  ^
[W] unknown:13 - file:///usr/share/harbour-webview/qml/pages/
    WebViewPage.qml:13:5: Type WebView unavailable 
         WebView { 
         ^
[W] unknown:141 - file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Sailfish/WebView/WebView.qml:141:9:
    Type TextSelectionController unavailable 
             TextSelectionController { 
             ^
[W] unknown:14 - file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Sailfish/WebView/Controls/
    TextSelectionController.qml:14:1: module "QOfono" is not installed 
     import QOfono 0.2 
     ^
Created LOG for EmbedLite
JSComp: EmbedLiteConsoleListener.js loaded
JSComp: ContentPermissionManager.js loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteChromeManager.js loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteErrorPageHandler.js loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteFaviconService.js loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteGlobalHelper.js loaded
EmbedLiteGlobalHelper app-startup
JSComp: EmbedLiteOrientationChangeHandler.js loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteSearchEngine.js loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteSyncService.js loaded
EmbedLiteSyncService app-startup
JSComp: EmbedLiteWebrtcUI.js: loaded
JSComp: EmbedLiteWebrtcUI.js: got app-startup
JSComp: EmbedPrefService.js loaded
EmbedPrefService app-startup
JSComp: EmbedliteDownloadManager.js loaded
JSComp: LoginsHelper.js loaded
JSComp: PrivateDataManager.js loaded
JSComp: UserAgentOverrideHelper.js loaded
UserAgentOverrideHelper app-startup
CONSOLE message:
[JavaScript Error: "Unexpected event profile-after-change" {file:
    "resource://gre/modules/URLQueryStrippingListService.jsm" line: 228}]
observe@resource://gre/modules/URLQueryStrippingListService.jsm:228:12

Created LOG for EmbedPrefs

No crash, several errors, but (of course) still a blank screen: no actual rendering taking place. But this is still really good progress. The WebView application which was completely crashing before, is now running, just not rendering. That means we now have the opportunity to debug and fix it. One more step forwards.

I'll look into the rendering more tomorrow.

If you'd like to read any of my other gecko diary entries, they're all available on my Gecko-dev Diary page.