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Codex extension crashes the page

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Reproduce the crash in Chrome on Windows 11 with code-server 4.116.0 and the Codex extension after several hours of issue work. Compare the client-side behavior with native VS Code and inspect browser-side state or logs; done means the page remains usable without the reported crash.

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Description

bug code-server triage waiting-for-info
Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Chrome
  • Local OS: Windows 11
  • Remote OS: Debian Trixie
  • Remote Architecture: x64
  • code-server --version: 4.116.0
Steps to Reproduce

Spend a day closing issues with codex.

Expected

No issue

Actual

Relyably within 4-5 hours you will start getting

Image

I am currently poisiting that something is being stored into indexdb or something client side (ideas?) thats causing a crash.

Seems to be getting worse too.

Logs
Nothing of interest on the server side.
Screenshot/Video

No response

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

No, this works as expected in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in VS Code web?

I did not test VS Code web

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

I have tested removing nearly every other extension, it appears to be code-server + codex.

Happy to get logs if you can provide some indication on how to, there doesnt appear to be anything on the server side as this seems to trigger a client side bug.

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