Re: EWW: initially failed loading of images

> From: Christopher Howard <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:46:31 -0800
> 
> Hi. A frequently problem I have in EWW, when loading up Wikipedia pages, is that many of the images do not load. The spot where the image is supposed to be just has a gray box of the correct proportions. However, if I reload this page (eww-reload) then all the images do load.
> 
> It seems like what must be happening is that EWW is rendering the page before all of the images have loaded. But I'm not sure what to do to fix this.

Yes, eww loads images in the background and does not delay rendering
the page until all the images are fetched (because that could take a
lot of time).  This is not a bug, so there should be no need to fix
it.  But you might try setting the eww-retrieve-command option to the
value 'sync'.