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Bug 836697 - www-client/epiphany: PDF.js viewer always crashes
Summary: www-client/epiphany: PDF.js viewer always crashes
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2022-04-03 15:07 UTC by Michael Orlitzky
Modified: 2022-09-27 23:33 UTC (History)
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2022-04-03 15:07 UTC, Michael Orlitzky 		Details
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Description Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev 2022-04-03 15:07:40 UTC 
Created attachment 768587 [details]
epiphany-42.0-pdf-crash.png

This has been happening for a long time, and still happens in v42.0. No matter the PDF file, I always get

  Oops!

  Something went wrong while displaying this page.
  Please reload or visit a different page to continue.

A screenshot is attached.

This is just as well, since in no universe would I ever want to read a PDF in a web browser. But since the problem doesn't seem to be going away on its own, let's track it.
Comment 1 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev 2022-09-27 23:33:35 UTC 
epiphany-43.0 and later will use the PDF.js in >= webkit-2.38.0, which can finally be disabled with USE="-pdf"