Crash / Entire window goes blank - in projects using Ionic

[boozedog]

I'm running sprint 37 on Mac OS X 10.9.2 . The entire Brackets window goes blank eventually, and at that point I'm not able to even quit the application, must Force Quit in Finder.

[boozedog]

Switching back to sprint 36 in the meantime. Very weird!

[njx]

Ack, that's terrible. Next time it happens, can you try (from Chrome) going to localhost:9234, click on the "Brackets" link if there is one, and see if there are any errors in the console?

[boozedog]

Sure I'll install 37 side-by-side with 36 and share what I find ...

[redmunds]

@boozedog

install 37 side-by-side with 36

To do this, install Sprint 36, then make a copy of the entire Brackets install folder, then install Sprint 37 (which installs over Brackets folder).

[boozedog]

@redmunds sorry I don't quite follow. Right now I have Sprint 36 and Sprint 37 separately in my Applications folder (this is Mac OS X). Is that what I want?

[boozedog]

BTW just noticed some of my extensions were out of date. I've updated them, let's see if that solves it. Will post any failures here.

[redmunds]

That's perfect. I missed that you were on Mac.

[boozedog]

OK this is weird. Screen went blank, then I went to http://localhost:9234/ in Chrome, and I get webpage not available?!

[redmunds]

We've heard reports of this problem, although it's rare and it has been a while, but since it's so nasty we'd love to try to nail this down. Can you provide a set of reproducible steps that makes it happen every time? That would help us to track it down. Thanks.

[redmunds]

Also, see if you can reproduce it with no extensions installed. You can use Debug > Reload Without Extensions to quickly run without extensions (and restarting Brackets returns to loading of extensions). If that eliminates problem, then try to isolate which extension is causing problem.

[boozedog]

Just crashed again. Had Chrome dev running at the time and it says "Inspected target has crashed. Once it reloads we will attach to it automatically."

Will try with no ext.

This is sprint 37.

[boozedog]

Yikes. Just crashed again, this time with extensions disabled. Chrome gave the same "Inspected target has crashed. Once it reloads we will attach to it automatically." msg.

Still working on reproducible steps but right now it seems like

1. Open Brackets
2. Select a particular .js file
3. Switch to browser and Google some stuff
4. Come back to frozen, blank Brackets window.

[boozedog]

OK I'm getting it to crash pretty consistently. I'm thinking it's this particular javascript file I'm working in. Confirmed that there is no useful information coming up in the Chrome dev console.

I'm gonna try to isolate if there's a particular part of the code in this file that's causing the problem.

[redmunds]

What version of Chrome are you running? Switch to stable if you are running something else.

[boozedog]

Version 33.0.1750.152 (stable).

I do have Chromium installed as well ...