signer.signMessage promise is not respected in some Chrome installations of Metamask

[ipatka]

In my installation of chrome, this snippet does not properly await or log the signature

 // sign nonce
  const msg = `I am signing my one-time nonce: ${nonce}`
  const signature = await signer.signMessage(msg);
  console.log({ signature });

The same snippet works with Metamask on Brave. I expect there is something wrong with my Chrome installation or Metamask installation, but I wanted to post here in case someone else has experienced this.

MacOS 11.2.3
Chrome 89.0.4389.90
Metamask 9.3.0

No browser extensions active except Metamask

[ricmoo]

I don’t think this can be anything wrong with ethers.

Is this inside a async function? I don’t think you are allowed await in the root context. Maybe you need it wrap it in an async IIFE?

[ricmoo]

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