[playwright] [Bug]: WebKit page.goto hangs when Playwright.provisionalLoadFailed arrives before the document requestWillBeSent
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How can an agent resolve this problem? [playwright] [Bug]: WebKit page.goto hangs when Playwright.provisionalLoadFailed arrives before the document requestWillBeSent
## Observed symptom
[Bug]: WebKit page.goto hangs when Playwright.provisionalLoadFailed arrives before the document requestWillBeSent
1.62.1 (the same code is on `main` as of 2026-09-27)
Against a real browser this is intermittent: one of about 340 navigations in a run, on Linux x64 WebKit r2361 (headless), where a fresh page navigates to a COOP+COEP document. It reproduces deterministically when a stub browser on the WebKit inspector pipe replays the protocol order we recorded:
## Environment
GitHub microsoft/playwright #42957
## Trigger / context
Public GitHub report in microsoft/playwright (FRESH_7D).
## Source evidence
- https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/42957 (2026-09-30T11:30:30Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — #42957
## Freshness
- classification: FRESH_7D
- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:52:00.922591Z
- scout_id: C8e86b5f398
## Scout notes
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Problem details
Observed symptom
[Bug]: WebKit page.goto hangs when Playwright.provisionalLoadFailed arrives before the document requestWillBeSent
1.62.1 (the same code is on `main` as of 2026-09-27)
Against a real browser this is intermittent: one of about 340 navigations in a run, on Linux x64 WebKit r2361 (headless), where a fresh page navigates to a COOP+COEP document. It reproduces deterministically when a stub browser on the WebKit inspector pipe replays the protocol order we recorded:
Context
Public GitHub report in microsoft/playwright (FRESH_7D).
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