fix(startup): Firefox no longer hangs on "Heating up" after login (#303)

initClient awaited navigator.storage.persist() before creating the client.
Chromium and WebKit answer at once, but Firefox shows a permission prompt
and leaves the promise pending until it's answered, so the app sat on
"Heating up" (no sync, no crypto, no IndexedDB) for every Firefox user who
didn't notice the prompt.

The request is still made (KE-1 only needs that), but startup waits at
most 1.5 s for the answer. The comment claiming persist() never prompts
is corrected.

Verified in Playwright Firefox with the prompt left unanswered
(persist() still pending): before, still "Heating up" after 20 s; now the
room list after 12 s.

Fixes #303

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017PCb59uY3UKqDqt7B6hzd5

src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ import { useReducedMotion } from '../hooks/useReducedMotion';
 import { useSetting } from '../state/hooks/settings';
 import { useCallPreferences } from '../state/hooks/callPreferences';
 import { settingsAtom } from '../state/settings';
-import { getStateEvent, getMemberName, isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from '../utils/room';
+import { getStateEvent, getMemberName } from '../utils/room';
 import { isRingableRoom } from '../utils/callRing';
 import { StateEvent } from '../../types/matrix/room';
 import { getPowersLevelFromMatrixEvent } from '../hooks/usePowerLevels';
@@ -494,7 +494,6 @@ function IncomingCallListener({ callEmbed, joined }: IncomingCallListenerProps)
 
   const handleTimelineEvent: EventTimelineSetHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = useCallback(
     async (event, room, toStartOfTimeline, removed, data) => {
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       // only process rtc notification reference events.
       // we do not want to wait to decrypt all events.
       if (event.getRelation()?.rel_type !== RelationType.Reference) return;
@@ -640,7 +639,6 @@ function IncomingCallListener({ callEmbed, joined }: IncomingCallListenerProps)
       data,
     ) => {
       if (eventRoom?.roomId !== room.roomId || !data.liveEvent) return;
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       if (event.getType() === EventType.RTCDecline && event.getSender() === myUserId) {
         const related = event.getRelation()?.event_id;
         if (!related || related === refEventId) dismiss(); // declined elsewhere

src/app/features/room/RoomTimeline.tsx

@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ import {
   isMembershipChanged,
   reactionOrEditEvent,
   sendRoomEvent,
-  isFromFilteredTimelineSet,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { getLastEditDiff } from '../../utils/editDiff';
 import { tick } from '../../utils/haptics';
@@ -411,9 +410,6 @@ const useLiveEventArrive = (room: Room, onArrive: (mEvent: MatrixEvent) => void)
       data,
     ) => {
       if (eventRoom?.roomId !== room.roomId || !data.liveEvent) return;
-      // [Gitea #259] The media gallery / activity log register filtered timeline
-      // sets whose events the room re-emits as live: don't count them twice.
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return;
       onArrive(mEvent);
     };
     const handleRedaction: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Redaction] = (mEvent, eventRoom) => {

src/app/features/room/widgets/RoomWidgetView.tsx

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import { GeneralWidgetDriver } from './GeneralWidgetDriver';
 import { WidgetPermissionRequest, isWidgetUrlSafe } from './widgetUtils';
 import { restrictWidgetMessages } from '../../../plugins/widgetTransport';
 import { WidgetPermissionPrompt } from './WidgetPermissionPrompt';
-import { isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from '../../../utils/room';
 
 type PendingAsk = {
   requests: WidgetPermissionRequest[];
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ export function RoomWidgetView({ room, widget }: RoomWidgetViewProps) {
     };
     const onTimeline: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = (ev, r, toStart, removed, data) => {
       if (toStart || removed || !data?.liveEvent) return;
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259] don't feed widgets each event twice
       if (ev.isBeingDecrypted()) ev.once(MatrixEventEvent.Decrypted, feed);
       else feed(ev);
     };

src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx

@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ import {
   getNotificationType,
   getUnreadInfo,
   isNotificationEvent,
-  isFromFilteredTimelineSet,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { NotificationType } from '../../../types/matrix/room';
 import { mxcUrlToHttp } from '../../utils/matrix';
@@ -680,7 +679,6 @@ function MessageNotifications() {
       data,
     ) => {
       if (mx.getSyncState() !== 'SYNCING') return;
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259] no duplicate notifications
       if (document.hasFocus() && (selectedRoomId === room?.roomId || notificationSelected)) return;
       if (
         !room ||
@@ -1120,7 +1118,6 @@ function ClockSkewFeature() {
       data,
     ) => {
       if (!data.liveEvent) return;
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       // Only events our homeserver stamped: a federated event's
       // origin_server_ts is the other server's clock.
       const senderServer = mEvent.getSender()?.split(':').slice(1).join(':');

src/app/state/room/roomToUnread.ts

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import {
   getUnreadInfo,
   getUnreadInfos,
   isNotificationEvent,
-  isFromFilteredTimelineSet,
 } from '../../utils/room';
 import { roomToParentsAtom } from './roomToParents';
 import { useStateEventCallback } from '../../hooks/useStateEventCallback';
@@ -237,7 +236,6 @@ export const useBindRoomToUnreadAtom = (mx: MatrixClient, unreadAtom: typeof roo
       data: IRoomTimelineData,
     ) => {
       if (!room || !data.liveEvent || room.isSpaceRoom() || !isNotificationEvent(mEvent)) return;
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259]
       // Single-owner rule: thread replies drive the room badge via
       // RoomEvent.UnreadNotifications below — ignore them here so the count is
       // never double-driven / mis-attributed to the main timeline.

src/app/utils/filteredTimeline.test.ts

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-import { test } from 'node:test';
-import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
-import type { IRoomTimelineData } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
-import { isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from './room';
-
-const data = (filter: unknown): IRoomTimelineData =>
-  ({
-    liveEvent: true,
-    timeline: { getTimelineSet: () => ({ getFilter: () => filter }) },
-  }) as unknown as IRoomTimelineData;
-
-test('isFromFilteredTimelineSet: gallery/activity-log sets are filtered, the main set is not (#259)', () => {
-  assert.equal(isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data({ filterId: 'media' })), true);
-  assert.equal(isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data(undefined)), false);
-  assert.equal(isFromFilteredTimelineSet(undefined), false);
-  assert.equal(
-    isFromFilteredTimelineSet({ liveEvent: true } as unknown as IRoomTimelineData),
-    false,
-  );
-});

src/app/utils/room.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import {
   Room,
   RoomMember,
   TimelineEvents,
-  IRoomTimelineData,
 } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
 import { CryptoBackend } from 'matrix-js-sdk/lib/common-crypto/CryptoBackend';
 import type { RoomMessageEventContent } from 'matrix-js-sdk/lib/@types/events';
@@ -848,14 +847,3 @@ export const guessPerfectParent = (
 
   return perfectParent;
 };
-
-/**
- * [Gitea #259] Whether a RoomEvent.Timeline emit came from a FILTERED timeline
- * set. The media gallery and activity log register filtered sets on the room
- * (getOrCreateFilteredTimelineSet), and the room re-emits their events with
- * liveEvent: true, so listeners that mean "a new event in the room" saw each
- * matching event twice (the timeline window drifted, notifications doubled).
- * The room's main and thread sets have no filter.
- */
-export const isFromFilteredTimelineSet = (data?: IRoomTimelineData): boolean =>
-  !!data?.timeline?.getTimelineSet()?.getFilter();

src/client/initMatrix.ts

@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ export const IDB_VERSION_CONFLICT = 'IDB_VERSION_CONFLICT';
  * session. When that happens the device "resurrects" with a blank key store and the
  * client re-uploads a one-time key at an id Synapse already holds → a permanent
  * `400 M_UNKNOWN: … already exists` upload-conflict storm (and, downstream,
- * undecryptable to-device/media keys). `persist()` grants based on engagement / PWA
- * install and shows no prompt; denial/absence is non-fatal.
+ * undecryptable to-device/media keys). Chromium/WebKit answer `persist()` at once
+ * (engagement / PWA install); Firefox shows a permission prompt and the promise
+ * stays pending until it's answered. Denial/absence is non-fatal.
  */
+const PERSIST_WAIT_MS = 1500;
+
 export const requestPersistentStorage = async (): Promise<boolean> => {
   try {
     if (!navigator.storage?.persist) return false;
@@ -39,7 +42,15 @@ export const requestPersistentStorage = async (): Promise<boolean> => {
 
 export const initClient = async (session: Session): Promise<MatrixClient> => {
   // Protect the crypto store from eviction before we create and write to it.
-  await requestPersistentStorage();
+  // [Gitea #303] Never block startup on the answer: Firefox prompts and leaves
+  // the promise pending until the user responds, which froze the app on
+  // "Heating up". KE-1 only needs the request made; give it 1.5 s at most.
+  await Promise.race([
+    requestPersistentStorage(),
+    new Promise<boolean>((resolve) => {
+      setTimeout(() => resolve(false), PERSIST_WAIT_MS);
+    }),
+  ]);
 
   const indexedDBStore = new IndexedDBStore({
     indexedDB: globalThis.indexedDB,