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The Browser’s Stop control reloaded loading pages instead of cancelling them. Stop now reaches the owning native or streamed page, clears loading after cancellation, and avoids a false address-bar error for an explicit native Stop. Idle Refresh and reload shortcuts still reload.

Fixes #29474

This is one focused obvious-bug fix under CONTRIBUTING.md’s exception: the existing control already promises cancellation. The contract, IPC bridge, viewer service and guest adapter changes carry that same action across rendering owners; no new setting, shortcut or agent-stop behavior is added.

Verified with fail-first focused regressions and vp run check:changed upstream/main: 170 tests in 10 files, affected/dependent typechecks, format, lint, knip, GraphQL and React Compiler checks all passed.

Real-client proof with synthetic isolated state:

  • Native baseline: one Stop click cancelled request8 and started request9 for the same URL, with a false address error. Native patch: Stop cancelled without a replacement or error; idle Refresh still reloaded and the tab remained usable.
  • First navigation from a blank streamed tab: one Stop cancelled the pending main request without a replacement, returned the production projection to {_tag: "Idle"} with empty address/no current error, and the same tab then loaded a normal page successfully. All three abort-event orderings have fail-first regressions.
  • Standalone streamed web: one actual stopLoading send cancelled request12, made no replacement request, and returned the control to Refresh. Separate idle Refresh started request14 after completed request13. Full current-process request events were retained; no mocks or scope bypasses.

Native renderer PNGs/video omit guest pixels. Separate native guest PNGs are genuine webContents.capturePage results; no images are composited. Runtime provenance is in the transcript: native baseline ac8dce0, native patch d900ec23 (native path unchanged thereafter), streamed web e93f1b6. The later focused server follow-ups and their proof are recorded separately below. Native baseline and final streamed verification used private Xvfb. Video extract positions are media offsets, not latency measurements.

Before, native Stop reloads and reports an address error:

Native baseline

After, native Stop cancels without an error:

Native patch

Streamed document before Stop:

Streamed before

After Stop, the same document remains and the control returns to Refresh:

Streamed after

Native baseline recording · Native patched recording · Streamed Stop recording · Idle Refresh recording · Raw native guest before · Raw native guest after · Runtime transcript · All evidence and fixture

Supplemental first-navigation proof at 3c4d1698: private Xvfb, actual UI and read-only production projection observation; no mocks. Idle renders as the launcher/recent-history layout here. lastError means the current LoadFailed projection, not historical errors.

Blank first navigation before Stop

Idle after explicit Stop

Blank-navigation recording · Projection and request transcript · Raw current-process fixture events

Not runtime-tested: remote-environment desktop tabs, desktop-hosted streamed tabs, relay/tunnel, macOS/Windows Electron or native mobile. Mobile’s existing control remains labeled Reload page. Shared routing and permission behavior are covered by the focused tests. Pre-existing status recovery for a hung retry from a Chromium error page is unchanged.

Reviewed with review-loop: 5 rounds with Claude Opus 5.5. Reviewer verdict: approved through 3c4d1698. The subsequent one-line initial-loading assignment and regression were self-reviewed under explicit user approval to use fresh CodeRabbit/CI, without a sixth delegate; the five Opus rounds did not review that assignment.

The initial-open timing regression fails before the assignment (Loading instead of Idle) and passes afterward. Focused service-test proof. This uses mocked external CDP/Page boundaries and is not claimed as an additional live UI capture.

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Verdict: Approved at e7e4aa7

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The existing Stop control now cancels loading in native and streamed browser tabs instead of reloading. The change is confined to explicit tab actions, preserves idle Refresh, and introduces no material data or operational exposure.

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The preview navigation control now stops active loading instead of reloading. Desktop previews route the request through IPC, while server-streamed previews send a stop-loading input. Both paths update navigation and loading state.

Changes: Preview Stop Control

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stop-loading contracts
packages/contracts/src/preview.ts, packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/preview/serverBrowserStream.ts
The shared navigation input includes stopLoading, and the desktop bridge contract exposes stopLoading(tabId).
Preview control dispatch
apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewChromeRow.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx, apps/web/src/browser/ServerBrowserSurface.tsx, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserStream.test.ts
While loading, the navigation button invokes the stop handler. The preview routes it to the server surface or desktop bridge. The stream mutation test covers stop-loading input gating.
Desktop navigation cancellation
apps/desktop/src/ipc/channels.ts, apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/preview.ts, apps/desktop/src/preload.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/GuestInput.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/GuestInput.test.ts
The desktop IPC path calls PreviewManager.stopLoading. The manager suppresses matching aborted navigation failures, and Page.stopLoading stops the guest web contents. Tests cover cancellation and failure outcomes.
Server navigation settlement
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
The server tracks the stopped navigation generation and settles matching aborted navigation while clearing loading state. Tests cover abort timing, viewer permissions, and input gating.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, only21mil

Merge Risk: Low · previous review a6a54

The Stop control now cancels active navigation in both native and streamed previews. One rare case remains: stopping a retry from a Chromium error page can leave the Loading state showing. The author has documented this as a follow-up. It is safe to merge with that awareness.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly describes the main change.
Description check Passed The description covers the problem, change, scope, and verification. Add the template headings to make these sections easier to find.
Linked Issues check Passed [#29474] The Stop control routes cancellation to the native guest or streamed page. Native navigation handles an explicit Stop abort without a false error. The server settles stopped navigation, inclu…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed [#29474] The contract, IPC, client routing, native guest, server navigation tracking, and tests support the existing Stop control. The contract consolidation supports the new stream input. The changes…
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[#29474] The Stop control routes cancellation to the native guest or streamed page. Native navigation handles an explicit Stop abort without a false error. The server settles stopped navigation, including committed pages with no load or failure event and late initial requests. Idle Refresh still reloads. Focused tests cover cancellation, event ordering, initial navigation, and Refresh. The PR reports that the tests passed; I did not run them.

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[#29474] The contract, IPC, client routing, native guest, server navigation tracking, and tests support the existing Stop control. The contract consolidation supports the new stream input. The changes do not add a setting, shortcut, product default, or agent-stop behavior.

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Nitpick Await the abort fallback before asserting the final state.

731-733: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Await the abort fallback before asserting the final state.

For the blank abortEvent: "after" case, the test can consume the early Idle event before the later requestfailed fallback runs. Control the 5-second abort timer with fake timers, advance it after emitting requestfailed, then assert that the tab remains Idle. Do not add a sleep or polling loop.

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The timer suggestion in the final follow-up review is unnecessary for the matching Stop-abort path. The requestfailed handler calls settleStoppedNavigation and returns before the download-abort timer is created. After Stop has settled, the helper's !tab.loading guard makes the later matching abort a no-op.

The test emits requestfailed synchronously before awaiting the Idle event and reading the projection. There is no pending five-second fallback to advance in this case; the existing explicit event milestone is the appropriate assertion boundary. Keeping the test unchanged for this nit. The documented error-page retry limitation remains the separately accepted follow-up.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 28130d337dd868c56378373a2aac2a09488d0f4e on a disposable linux vm using the actual web client, repository playwright, and /usr/bin/google-chrome.

  • reproduced on github/main (61c3794c32): one stop click started a replacement request for the same streaming document. the control stayed on stop.
  • on this head, one stop click closed the streaming request without a replacement. the partial document remained visible and the control returned to refresh without an address-bar error.
  • idle refresh still started a new request. the reload shortcut also still reloaded while loading. normal navigation worked after cancellation.
  • stopping a fresh tab before response headers arrived returned it to the idle launcher with an empty address and no error. the same tab then loaded a normal document.

both checkouts ran separately with isolated state, with main stopped before starting this head. projects and threads were created through the app. real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns completed through both clients: one built and started a real git-backed document reader, and the second read it and confirmed its endpoint with curl. the same reader and document data were used for both browser runs. no mocked transport, replay provider, injected state, or imported fixtures.

145 focused tests in four files passed through blacksmith: server browser, stream permissions, desktop manager, and guest input. existing head ci reports 28 successful checks. no source changes or pushes were needed.

main after clicking stop, with the replacement request still loading:

main after stop restarts the streaming document

pr after clicking stop, with the partial document retained and refresh restored:

pr after stop cancels the streaming document

command and request transcript records the request ids, cancellation, subsequent navigation, provider runs, and focused check command.

Not verified

this pass covered server-owned streaming in the linux chrome web client. native electron guest cancellation, native ios/android, macos/windows, desktop-hosted streaming, remote environments, and relay/tunnel were not exercised. other providers were not exercised. the previously documented retry from a chromium error page was not exercised or changed. focused tests covering native routing do not replace live native-client verification.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

someone else pushed to fix/browser-stop-loading (head is now 8320a3f); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

voltcrash and others added 4 commits November 13, 2026 13:40
Main's navigate already treats a superseded load's ERR_ABORTED as success,
so the per-webContents stop generation and its test are redundant. Keep the
stream input union in client-runtime rather than a contracts type.

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Evidence

Proven in the real web client: scenarios:prove exited 0, failing on base and passing on head.

Environment for every capture: Chromium, 1280×800, light theme; isolated servers with fresh synthetic project/thread state and the replay agent. The isolated server browsers used the documented sandbox opt-out required by this VM.

Steps: open Browser; navigate to partial HTML held open and click Stop once; repeat from a blank tab with headers withheld; load a normal page and click idle Refresh.

Evidence Before — 8610b31ee8 After — c9c2d72741
Result Stop starts partial request #2 and leaves loading active. Pre-header Stop subsequently reports ERR_ABORTED. Stop closes each request without a replacement, clears loading, and returns the blank tab to its idle launcher without an address error.
Partial HTML after Stop Before: replacement request #2 and active loading After: request #1 retained and loading cleared
Pre-header cancellation Before: ERR_ABORTED after Stop, frame from recording After: empty address and idle launcher without an error
Idle Refresh and request log Before: normal Refresh starts request #2 After: normal Refresh starts request #2; cancelled requests have closed
Same scripted interaction Before recording After recording

Scenario and HTTP fixture source. To reproduce, inherit T3CODE_SERVER_BROWSER_SANDBOX=0 through T3_SCENARIO_INHERIT_ENV on hosts requiring the sandbox opt-out.

The recordings show the complete interaction, including the base's delayed ERR_ABORTED state. Both commits remain usable for normal navigation and idle Refresh.

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  • The Electron-native browser path was not exercised; this proof covers the real web client and server-hosted browser.

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Evidence

Real web client, Chromium, 1280×800, light theme; fresh synthetic state on both commits. Navigate to partial HTML with its response held open, click Stop once, repeat from a blank tab with response headers withheld, then load a normal page in a third tab and click idle Refresh.

Evidence Before: 286eeea19f After: 15a02b2ca0
Streaming Stop Before: replacement request 2, still loading After: request 1 retained, loading cleared
Delayed-header Stop Before: remains loading After: idle launcher without address error
Idle Refresh Before: normal request 2 After: normal request 2
Recording Before interaction After interaction

Scenario and HTTP fixture. scenarios:prove exited 0: failsOnBase=true, passesOnHead=true.

Not shown:

  • Electron's native browser path was not exercised; this proof covers the web client and server browser.
  • Subsequent navigation within the cancelled tab was not separately verified; the normal-page Refresh check used a fresh third tab.

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…6 (Running the fork's tests in apps/server)

Failing check: Running the fork's tests in apps/server

The apps/server fork tests failed in three places. Each was a fork seam that no longer fit upstream's new code, and all three now pass.

**Switchboard auth showed the native endpoint** (`fork/switchboard/claudeDriverRouting.test.ts`). Upstream now adds an `endpoint` field to Claude's custom-endpoint auth info. The fork's Switchboard seam overrode the auth type and label but still let the native auth info through, so a routed probe reported `endpoint: http://native.example`. In `ClaudeProvider.ts` I now drop the native auth info when routed, the same way the fork already drops email and workspace. That line is marked `fork: switchboard`.

**A worktree folder left with only `node_modules` was not rebuilt** (`orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts`). Upstream pingdotgg#34894 made `restoreMissingWorktree` clear a managed worktree folder that holds only `node_modules`/`.next` and recreate the checkout. The fork's project-lifecycle seam calls its own `restoreWorktree` instead, and that returned early whenever the folder existed, so upstream's new `leftover` case failed. I carried upstream's leftover check into `workspace/restoreWorktree.ts`, which is fork-only. It runs only when the caller passes `clearLeftovers`, and the turn-start seam sets that only for server-managed paths, matching upstream's guard.

**Stop on a page's first load hung for 120s** (`preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts`, 4 cases). Upstream pingdotgg#29475 lets a viewer press Stop while a tab's first page load is still pending. The fork's `browser-timeout-recovery` seam in `findTab` made every tab wait for that first load before a viewer could attach, so the viewer never connected. The wait is only needed when a tab is being rebuilt after a stall, so `findTab` now checks for that first and waits only then; new tabs behave as upstream. The marker is kept and no `seams.tsv` row changed.

Rerun results:
- The two failing test files plus `restoreWorktree.test.ts`: 93/93 pass.
- `ServerBrowser.test.ts`: 106/106 pass, including the fork's recovery tests.
- Claude provider, Switchboard and project-lifecycle tests: 191/191 pass.
- `check_seams`, the apps/server typecheck, lint and format checks on the four changed files: all clean.

I did not rerun the whole apps/server suite.
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