Re: EWW: initially failed loading of images

Christopher Howard <[email protected]> Thu, 14 May 2026 08:56:35 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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'.

Hello. Thank you for the good information. However, after setting eww-retrieve-command to sync (via customize) and restarting Emacs, I am getting the same results. The page only takes a second or so to render in EWW, but half the images are not loaded.

The way I test this is to go to a wikipedia page which I know that I have not visited recently, but I also expect to have lots of images. For example, the WP pages for "submarine" or "airplane".

I'll try this with emacs -Q and see if I get different results.

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Christopher Howard