Photofield self-hosted instance fails to render photos

czach — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:39:31 GMT

Firefox Nightly (158.0a1) – Photofield self-hosted instance fails to render photos (stuck on pending view / missing thumbnail requests)

Description: Since updating to a fresh profile on Firefox Nightly (158.0a1), a self-hosted instance of Photofield fails to load and display images. While initialization requests (tasks, collections, capabilities, scenes, dates) complete successfully with a 200 OK status, the application gets stuck and does not trigger subsequent requests for image thumbnails.

Steps to Reproduce:

Open a fresh profile in Firefox Nightly (158.0a1).
Navigate to a self-hosted Photofield instance.
Observe the UI and the Network tab in Developer Tools.

Actual Behavior:

Initial configuration and metadata endpoints (/scenes, /dates, etc.) load properly (200 OK).
The Web Console shows a warning: Map not initialized yet, setting pending view.
No further requests for image files or tiles are issued. The photo grid remains completely blank.
Other browsers and older stable versions of Firefox render the same instance correctly.

Expected Behavior: The application should successfully initialize the view container, parse the metadata, and dynamically fetch and render image thumbnails.

Environment:

Browser: Firefox Nightly 158.0a1 (fresh profile)
OS: macOS 26.7.1
Application: Photofield (Self-hosted) - https://github.com/SmilyOrg/photofield

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