[Bug] An annoyance (pseudo forwarding to PDF URL)
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I want to load and read this page:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9078351/Mutant-British-variant-coronavirus-probably-US.html
However, every time I attempt to go there, the URL immediately changes to 9549 characters of garbage, which begins with:
data:text/html,<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width"> <script> // If this page is embedded in a WebViewPlugin, the 'window.plugin' // object is externally defined, and we trigger the download that way. if (window.plugin !== undefined) { window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () { let button = document.getElementById('open-button'); button.addEventListener ('click', function(e) { window.plugin.openPDF(); e.preventDefault(); } );
and displays a blank page with a PDF URL and an "Open" button. I have no interest in downloading or viewing the PDF. I just want to read the article (and I have javascript disabled, so I don't expect to get taken away from the page.
Does some way exist to prevent this annoying behavior?
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@0001 Hello, no such behaviour happens here, tested in a clean profile of Vivaldi Stable.
I see the PDF embedded in the page as expected.
First go through the troubleshooting tips:
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/troubleshooting-issues/Post also your system information from Help > About here in a code block.
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Vivaldi 3.4.2066.106 (Stable channel) (64-bit) Revision 9faa7da6e287d30fe3948ac5d9d62aefe7977da5 OS Linux JavaScript V8 8.6.395.25 Flash 999.999.999.999 /usr/lib/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36 Command Line /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --flag-switches-begin --disable-quic --disable-features=AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,EnablePasswordsAccountStorage,StorageAccessAPI,UseMediaHistoryStore,google-password-manager --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml Executable Path /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi Profile Path /home/user/.config/vivaldi/Default
Of note, I have all plugins disabled, including "Enable Internal PDF Viewer." I don't want to view the PDF - I want to ignore it completely.
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@0001 Why such an old version?
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-3-5/ -
@0001 Yes, your browser is outdated, please go to Help > Check for updates, and also enable the "Notify about updates" setting under General > Updates.
But I still think you might've found a bug, good find
I tested in a clean profile of Stable, Windows 10. Disabled the internal PDF viewer, opened the page. The same happened here.
The same happens on any page with a PDF in an IFRAME when the internal viewer is disabled.
Tested also in latest Snapshot, same issue.Please report the issue to the Vivaldi team here:
https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/
Make sure to specify exactly how to reproduce the issue by disabling the internal PDF viewer. -
@Pathduck said in An annoyance (pseudo forwarding to PDF URL):
please go to Help > Check for updates, and also enable the "Notify about updates" setting under General > Updates.
@0001 is on Linux
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@TbGbe said in An annoyance (pseudo forwarding to PDF URL):
@0001 Why such an old version?
Latest stable version when I last booted. I never update between boots (and a big reason for that comes from a bug where Vivaldi loses history on restarts). I will install the latest stable version the next time I reboot.
I have an even older version on one of my machines - 2.9.1705.41. I haven't updated that due to a longstanding bug where newer versions won't forward X11 (I run Vivaldi remotely on this machine). Although, I just tested forwarding with a third machine running 3.5.2115.81, and upstream (Chromium) seems to have fixed display forwarding, so I can finally update Vivaldi on the machine running the ancient version (although again, not until the next restart).
Reported the bug (which appears relatively straightforward to track down and fix). Thanks to all for the replies.
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