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Bug 836697

Summary: www-client/epiphany: PDF.js viewer always crashes
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Michael Orlitzky <mjo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: epiphany-42.0-pdf-crash.png

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"