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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately this is not a simple problem. We’re currently using a
ShaderEffectSource item to capture the contents of a webview and display
a paused thumbnail. This works well while the webview is live and has
been shown at least once. But when the app is restored after being
killed, only the current webview has been shown, all the other webviews
are hidden, so there is no capture available.

QML doesn’t expose any built-in way of persisting the contents of an
item as an image on disk, which is what would be needed to restore tab
previews.

Also note that we’re currently not persisting favicons on disk either,
they are being re-downloaded everytime, this is bug #1340585.

** Changed in: webbrowser-app
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  restoring browser shows blank tab previews

Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  New
Status in Web Browser App:
  Confirmed
Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  after closing the browser and reopening, the open tabs are now
  restored which is great. However when viewing the tabs page, all of
  the previews are blank which makes for a pretty ugly looking page.

  Can we persist these preview images, same as we're doing for the favicon images so that we can restore them when the app starts?
  If not, we should minimally show something in the tab preview like "Click to open" or some other graphic

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