problem has migrated to the errorcontainer as a whole. looking into that now. added more console logs. Planning to reassign the linkFiber on line 23 of index.ts in backend to use LinkFiber instead of linkFiberInitialization

Author: jrosengrant

src/app/containers/ErrorContainer.tsx

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ function ErrorContainer(): JSX.Element {
     'currentTab: ',
     currentTab,
     'currentTitle: ',
+    currentTitle,
   );
   // function that launches the main app
   function launch(): void {
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ function ErrorContainer(): JSX.Element {
 
   // hook that sets timer while waiting for a snapshot from the background script, resets if the tab changes/reloads
   useEffect(() => {
+    if (tabs[currentTab]) console.log('ErrorContainer useEffect fired, ', tabs[currentTab].status);
     // We declare a function
     function setLoadingArray(i: number, value: boolean) {
       // 'setLoadingArray' checks an element in our 'loadingArray' local state and compares it with passed in boolean argument. If they don't match, we update our local state replacing the selected element with the boolean argument

src/app/slices/mainSlice.ts

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ export const mainSlice = createSlice({
         tabs[currentTab] || {};
       const { payload } = action;
 
+      console.log('mainSlice initialConnect reducer fired, ', payload);
       Object.keys(payload).forEach((tab) => {
         // check if tab exists in memory
         // add new tab
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ export const mainSlice = createSlice({
     // If false: Reactime is 'Unlocked', and navigating to another tab will update the Redux state's currentTab, which will trigger Reactime to try to run on that new tab.
     setTab: (state, action) => {
       const { tabs, currentTab } = state;
-      const { mode } = tabs[currentTab] || { paused: true };
+      const { mode } = tabs[currentTab] || {};
       console.log('mainSlice setTab, mode: ', JSON.stringify(mode), 'payload: ', action.payload);
       if (!mode?.paused) {
         if (typeof action.payload === 'number') {