fix: ensure webcontents is destroyed before its associated browser context.

atom/browser/atom_browser_context.cc

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ AtomBrowserContext::AtomBrowserContext(const std::string& partition,
                                        bool in_memory,
                                        const base::DictionaryValue& options)
     : base::RefCountedDeleteOnSequence<AtomBrowserContext>(
-          base::SequencedTaskRunnerHandle::Get()),
+          base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get()),
       in_memory_pref_store_(nullptr),
       storage_policy_(new SpecialStoragePolicy),
       in_memory_(in_memory),

atom/browser/common_web_contents_delegate.cc

@@ -205,8 +205,19 @@ void CommonWebContentsDelegate::SetOwnerWindow(
 
 void CommonWebContentsDelegate::ResetManagedWebContents(bool async) {
   if (async) {
-    base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get()->DeleteSoon(FROM_HERE,
-                                                    web_contents_.release());
+    // Browser context should be destroyed only after the WebContents,
+    // this is guaranteed in the sync mode by the order of declaration,
+    // in the async version we maintain a reference until the WebContents
+    // is destroyed.
+    // //electron/patches/common/chromium/content_browser_main_loop.patch
+    // is required to get the right quit closure for the main message loop.
+    base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get()->PostNonNestableTask(
+        FROM_HERE,
+        base::BindOnce([](scoped_refptr<AtomBrowserContext> browser_context,
+                          std::unique_ptr<brightray::InspectableWebContents>
+                              web_contents) { web_contents.reset(); },
+                       base::RetainedRef(browser_context_),
+                       std::move(web_contents_)));
   } else {
     web_contents_.reset();
   }

patches/common/chromium/.patches.yaml

@@ -477,3 +477,10 @@ patches:
     Pass RenderProcessHost through to PlatformNotificationService.
 
     This is so Electron can identify which renderer a notification came from.
+-
+  author: deepak1556 <hop2deep@gmail.com>
+  file: content_browser_main_loop.patch
+  description: |
+    Pass idle quit closure for main message loop, so that pending tasks are
+    run before shutdown. This is required to cleanup WebContents asynchronously
+    in atom::CommonWebContentsDelegate::ResetManageWebContents.

patches/common/chromium/content_browser_main_loop.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc b/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
+index eb942391306e..9111cf18b7fc 100644
+--- a/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
++++ b/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
+@@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ void BrowserMainLoop::MainMessageLoopRun() {
+   }
+ 
+   base::RunLoop run_loop;
+-  parts_->PreDefaultMainMessageLoopRun(run_loop.QuitClosure());
++  parts_->PreDefaultMainMessageLoopRun(run_loop.QuitWhenIdleClosure());
+   run_loop.Run();
+ #endif
+ }