Re: EWW: initially failed loading of images

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 16 May 2026 08:47:40 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], Christopher Howard
>  <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 12:46:12 -0400
> 
> I have been able to reproduce the problem using Emacs 30, in
> case Christopher Howard wants to report it (using M-x
> report-emacs-bug).
> 
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. (setopt eww-retrieve-url 'sync)
> 3. M-x eww RET
> 4. At the prompt "Enter URL or keywords: ", enter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine
> 5. Scroll down many screens (the initial Wikipedia logo is
>    displayed) until the first submarine image is displayed.
>    Below it is a gray box for a missing image.
> 6. Type ‘g’, which is bound to the command ‘eww-reload’, by
>    default.
> 7. After the page is reloaded, the second image will be
>    displayed (another submarine).
> 8. Scroll many more screens to see that some additional
>    images have been downloaded, but many gray boxes still
>    appear.  It then requires multiple reloads to get all of
>    the images to download.

Please submit a full bug report with these details, and thanks.