Handle disabled preload config in firefox (#7106)

.changeset/disabled-link-preload.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@remix-run/react": patch
+---
+
+Add `<link rel="preload">` timeout counter and disabling logic in case preloading is disabled by the user in Firefox.  This prevents us from hanging on client-side navigations when we try to preload stylesheets and never receive a `load`/`error` event on the `link` tag.

packages/remix-react/links.ts

@@ -221,12 +221,42 @@ export function getLinksForMatches(
   return dedupe(descriptors, preloads);
 }
 
+let stylesheetPreloadTimeouts = 0;
+let isPreloadDisabled = false;
+
 export async function prefetchStyleLinks(
   routeModule: RouteModule
 ): Promise<void> {
   if (!routeModule.links) return;
   let descriptors = routeModule.links();
   if (!descriptors) return;
+  if (isPreloadDisabled) return;
+
+  // If we've hit our timeout 3 times, we may be in firefox with the
+  // `network.preload` config disabled and we'll _never_ get onload/onerror
+  // callbacks.  Let's try to confirm this with a totally invalid link preload
+  // which should immediately throw the onerror
+  if (stylesheetPreloadTimeouts >= 3) {
+    let linkLoadedOrErrored = await prefetchStyleLink({
+      rel: "preload",
+      as: "style",
+      href: "__remix-preload-detection-404.css",
+    });
+    if (linkLoadedOrErrored) {
+      // If this processed correctly, then our previous timeouts were probably
+      // legit, reset the counter.
+      stylesheetPreloadTimeouts = 0;
+    } else {
+      // If this bogus preload also times out without an onerror then it's safe
+      // to assume preloading is disabled and let's just stop trying.  This
+      // _will_ cause FOUC on destination pages but there's nothing we can
+      // really do there if preloading is disabled since client-side injected
+      // scripts aren't render blocking.  Maybe eventually React's client side
+      // async component stuff will provide an easier solution here
+      console.warn("Disabling preload due to lack of browser support");
+      isPreloadDisabled = true;
+    }
+  }
 
   let styleLinks: HtmlLinkDescriptor[] = [];
   for (let descriptor of descriptors) {
@@ -246,13 +276,12 @@ export async function prefetchStyleLinks(
       (!link.media || window.matchMedia(link.media).matches) &&
       !document.querySelector(`link[rel="stylesheet"][href="${link.href}"]`)
   );
-
   await Promise.all(matchingLinks.map(prefetchStyleLink));
 }
 
 async function prefetchStyleLink(
   descriptor: HtmlLinkDescriptor
-): Promise<void> {
+): Promise<boolean> {
   return new Promise((resolve) => {
     let link = document.createElement("link");
     Object.assign(link, descriptor);
@@ -266,16 +295,20 @@ async function prefetchStyleLink(
       }
     }
 
-    link.onload = () => {
+    // Allow 3s for the link preload to timeout
+    let timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
+      stylesheetPreloadTimeouts++;
       removeLink();
-      resolve();
-    };
+      resolve(false);
+    }, 3_000);
 
-    link.onerror = () => {
+    let done = () => {
+      clearTimeout(timeoutId);
       removeLink();
-      resolve();
+      resolve(true);
     };
-
+    link.onload = done;
+    link.onerror = done;
     document.head.appendChild(link);
   });
 }