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Unable to process request due to missing initial state.

Fresh5 months ago
Mar 14, 20260 views
Confidence Score78%
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Problem

[REQUIRED] Describe your environment Windows 10, Android 10 Google chrome firebase js sdk version: 7.24.0 firebase auth [REQUIRED] Describe the problem When trying to do sign with redirect (social login: google/facebook), many of our users are getting the following error: _Unable to process request due to missing initial state. This may happen if browser sessionStorage is inaccessible or accidentally cleared._ Steps to reproduce: Not able to reproduce this. But it occurs very frequently for many of our users.

Error Output

error: 
**_Unable to process request due to missing initial state. This may happen if browser sessionStorage is inaccessible or accidentally cleared._**

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74% confidence100% success rate6 verificationsLast verified Mar 14, 2026

Solution: Unable to process request due to missing initial state.

Low Risk

Seeing the same issue in production for our react app on android.

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6 verifications

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    Seeing the same issue in production for our react app on android.

    Seeing the same issue in production for our react app on android.

Validation

Resolved in firebase/firebase-js-sdk GitHub issue #4256. Community reactions: 23 upvotes.

Verification Summary

Worked: 6
Partial: 2
Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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firebasegooglesdkbugapi:-authneeds-attentioninternal-bug-filed