Bug#932540: epiphany-browser: Gmail doesn't work correctly in Epiphany in buster

[Gerardo Ballabio]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.32.1.2-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: gerardo.ballabio at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

after installing Debian buster, the web interface of Gmail doesn't
work correctly in Epiphany any more. It is basically unusable, as I
can't neither read nor send messages. It used to work just fine in
stretch and previous releases, and it still works in Firefox.

The behavior I am observing is as follows:
- login and logout work correctly.
- when I log in, I am shown the contents of the Incoming folder, but
when I click on any message (which should open it), nothing happens.
In fact, the first time I logged in, it was still misfunctional but in
a different way: I could read messages, but they weren't marked as
read, as if I were in a sort of read-only mode. Today it got worse.
- when I try to open another folder, e.g., the Sent folder, or to open
the next page of the Incoming folder (beyond the 50 most recent
messages), I am shown an empty folder (I swear there are messages
there!).
- when I try to send a message, the compose window opens correctly and
I can write the message, but when I click the Send button, the message
simply disappears: the window closes and the message is not sent and
doesn't appear either in the Sent or the Draft folders (I checked this
in Firefox, as in Epiphany I can't even see the contents of these
folders!).

How to reproduce this bug: open Epiphany, browse to
https://mail.google.com/ , log into your Gmail account, try to read
messages, try to navigate folders, try to send messages.

Thank you
Gerardo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.16-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.16-1
ii  epiphany-browser-data                         3.32.1.2-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.28.1-1
ii  iso-codes                                     4.2-1
ii  libc6                                         2.28-10
ii  libcairo2                                     1.16.0-4
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                               3.28.1-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                                 3.28.1-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.58.3-2
ii  libgmp10                                      2:6.1.2+dfsg-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.5-1
ii  libhogweed4                                   3.4.1-1
ii  libicu63                                      63.1-6
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18                   2.24.2-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                            1.4.4-2
ii  libnettle6                                    3.4.1-1
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.7-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.42.4-6
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.18.7-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                  2.64.2-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                                  3.27.2-3
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37                          2.24.2-1
ii  libxml2                                       2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20190110
ii  evince           3.30.2-3
ii  yelp             3.31.90-1

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

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