Live preview error when editing code

[mkbaldwin]

While editing an HTML file I am repeatedly getting the "Live Preview Error: Unable to load Live Development page" as I try to work on code. I am running Brackets Sprint 32, and Chrome 30.0.1599.101 on Windows 7 Pro.

The live preview will work sometimes, but sometimes the connection to Chrome seems to break and I start getting that error.

[njx]

To @ingorichter to see if we can reproduce. @mkbaldwin - can you say a little more about when you get this error? Is it right after hitting the live preview button, or does it happen in the middle of the live preview session after you've already successfully seen the page in the browser?

[mkbaldwin]

Sure, I have an HTML file that I am editing (it's only about 500 lines so nothing massive). I can start a live preview session and things seem to work fine initially. I can edit my code and see the changes update. Then after a few minutes of editing I will get the previously mentioned error.

I haven't been able to figure out any specific thing I might be doing that causes it to happen more frequently. Obviously it isn't happening for everyone otherwise I'm sure you would have a lot more complaints of it.

Let me know if you need more details or assistance reproducing it.

[marcelgerber]

I get this error message sometimes, too. But for me it appears just 5 or 10 seconds after starting live preview.

I can't figure out a rule for that, too, but when I close the old Chrome window and open a new one, it works fine (everytime).
I even can't provide more info since I'm on another PC now.

UPDATE: opened #7097 to track this issue

[kdickinson]

I'm also having this issue. It never loads.

[njx]

Nominating for sprint 35 to try to track down what's going on.

[jasonsanjose]

@mkbaldwin Have you tried Sprint 34?

[arielfmdp]

I have the same issue since various versions ago, it never worked anymore, I don't remember exactly when started the issue, but with very early versions worked fine.

[ingorichter]

@arielfmdp do you have Windows 7 Pro? Do you still see this with Brackets Sprint 34?

[arielfmdp]

Hi @ingorichter, I have windows 7 and the last Brackets sprint, but you know what ? I found the problem ! I just found THE problem!
It was the extension named "debugger", the one that opens a console down on brackets. I disabled that extension moving it to the disabled folder, and that's all !! Brackets' live preview started to work again !! I'm very happy !!
That issue was torturing me for so long....and I just wanted to try something and the first extension I disabled, fixed the issue. I cannot believe it. Well, I hope this helps some other people, I know there are many others with this problem.

[ingorichter]

@mkbaldwin @SAplayer I created a very reliable way of reproducing the error (at least on my machine). The question for me is, if my error has the same root cause than yours.
I always get this error, when the html file is not part of the project and I start live preview with this file. This will lead to this error. But if the same file is part of a project, then this error won't show up. One other factor in my case is probably the size of the file (1.2MB). Do you encounter this issue with files inside or outside of a project?

[jasonsanjose]

@ingorichter there's a related bug about live preview on a file outside the current project #5975. There's no error message though, so maybe it's not the same?

[ingorichter]

@jasonsanjose yes, that sounds different from what #5975 says. Then this might be another issue that I found. I'd like to hear back from @mkbaldwin and @SAplayer what their setup looks like (in project file) and what the contents of the file looked like.

[marcelgerber]

@ingorichter I didn't add them to the project, they were already in the folder.
I don't know any more how these files looked like as it has been a while since I encountered this issue the last time. Maybe it doesn't even exist anymore.
But as soon as I get it again, I will give you more information.

[mkbaldwin]

@jasonsanjose I still have this error in sprint 34.

@ingorichter These are files that are all under 20k in size and they are ones that are in the folder that I have open within Brackets.