Re: EWW: initially failed loading of images

Christopher Howard <[email protected]> Sat, 16 May 2026 08:26:21 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.

I copied this into a new bug report, thank you.

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Christopher Howard