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fix(webview2): share one UDF configuration across preview panels - #2058
All WebView2 panels share one UserDataFolder (WebView2_Data), but the Font, CHM and PlantUML viewers additionally set AdditionalBrowserArguments (--enable-features=WebContentsForceDark) when the dark theme is active. WebView2 requires identical environment options for a shared UDF: the first environment wins and later panels fail to create with 0x8007139F (ERROR_INVALID_STATE). The initialization failure was ignored, so every WebView2 preview stayed blank until QuickLook was restarted. Pinning a ForceDark panel keeps its environment alive and makes the failure sticky.
Fix
Centralize CoreWebView2CreationProperties in WebpagePanel.CreateCreationProperties() and use it from both WebpagePanel and SvgImagePanel, so no panel appends browser arguments.
Remove the ForceDark AdditionalBrowserArguments from WebfontPanel, ChmWebpagePanel and PuImagePanel.
Apply CoreWebView2Profile.PreferredColorScheme after successful initialization instead.
Log initialization failures and subscribe to CoreWebView2.ProcessFailed.
same UDF, ForceDark environment first, plain environment second -> second fails with 0x8007139F;
same UDF, two plain environments -> both succeed;
PreferredColorScheme = Dark -> matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)') is true.
QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer, ImageViewer, FontViewer, ChmViewer, MarkdownViewer and MailViewer build clean.
The full QuickLook GUI preview flow was not run.
Notes
Removing WebContentsForceDark means pages that hard-code light colors (e.g. font2html.html, some CHM content) may stay light in dark theme. This is the trade-off described in the issue; visual regression was not run.
Browser-process crash recovery is still not implemented; only logging was added. That is a separate path from the argument mismatch fixed here.
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Display
HTML previews now follow the system’s dark or light color scheme.
CHM, font, and PlantUML previews no longer force dark rendering, so their appearance may differ in dark mode.
Reliability
Webpage previews now handle initialization failures by showing a download option.
WebView2 process failures are logged to help diagnose rendering issues.
Navigation completion safely handles cases where the web view is unavailable.
Also fixes#2057. If CoreWebView2 initialization fails, the panel now removes and disposes the half-initialized control and shows the WebView2 install fallback instead of leaving it in the visual tree.
Validation: built QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer and the five dependent plugin projects with the .NET 10 SDK. The failure path itself was not reproduced at runtime (it requires a machine where WebView2 controller creation fails).
All WebView2 panels use the same UserDataFolder, but FontViewer, CHM and
PlantUML optionally set AdditionalBrowserArguments (ForceDark). WebView2
requires identical environment options for a shared UDF: the first
environment wins and later panels fail with 0x8007139F. That failure was
ignored, so the panels stayed blank until the process restarted.
- Centralize CreationProperties in WebpagePanel so no panel adds browser
arguments.
- Drop the ForceDark arguments; apply CoreWebView2Profile.PreferredColorScheme
after initialization instead.
- Log initialization failures and WebView2 process failures.
Verified with a WebView2 runtime harness: a ForceDark environment followed by
a plain environment reproduces 0x8007139F on the same UDF, two plain
environments succeed, and PreferredColorScheme=Dark is honored. Affected
plugins build clean. The full GUI preview flow was not run.
The changes remove per-viewer dark-theme browser arguments from CHM, font, and PlantUML panels. The HTML panel now shares its WebView2 creation-properties factory with the SVG panel and handles initialization and process-failure events.
These panels no longer add WebView2’s WebContentsForceDark browser argument.
Shared creation properties and initialization handling QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer/WebpagePanel.cs, QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Webview/Svg/SvgImagePanel.cs
WebpagePanel creates WebView2 properties through a factory that retains the existing user-data folder. On successful initialization, it applies the system color scheme and registers process-failure and resource-request handlers. It logs initialization and process failures. On initialization failure, it removes and disposes the control and displays the download button. SvgImagePanel uses the factory.
Issue 2031: The changes handle and log WebView2 initialization failures in WebpagePanel, which relates to reports of blank HTML and Markdown previews.
Issue 2057: The changes log initialization failures, dispose the failed control, and display a fallback action. They do not implement SVG fallback to ImageMagick.
Suggested reviewers:emako
Merge Risk: Low · up to 0b4d0
The shared WebView2 configuration fixes the main blank-preview problem. Remaining gaps are narrow: a misleading install message after an initialization error, a possible failure on older runtimes, and no automatic recovery after a crash. Owners should know about them, but none blocks merge.
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[#2055] The shared creation properties, removal of viewer-specific browser arguments, and profile color scheme address the configuration mismatch. The initialization handler now logs failures and disp…
Implement recovery for initialization failures and browser-process crashes, including retry and stale-lock cleanup where needed. Add automated tests for shared configuration and recovery.
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[#2055] The configuration, color-scheme, logging, and initialization-fallback changes support the WebView2 failure objectives.
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[#2055] The shared creation properties, removal of viewer-specific browser arguments, and profile color scheme address the configuration mismatch. The initialization handler now logs failures and disposes the control, but it shows a fallback instead of recreating it. The process-failure handler only logs the failure. Recovery without an app restart remains unmet. The PR summary lists no automated regression tests.
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The new initialization-failure handling logs and returns but provides no retry or replacement WebView2. A transient failure can therefore leave this preview unusable for its lifetime.
The current preview remains blank until the panel or application is recreated.
This can occur when: Initialization fails temporarily, such as while the shared user-data folder is locked, and would succeed after the obstruction clears.
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Update WebpagePanel’s WebView2 initialization-failure handling so a transient
failure can be retried or the WebView2 replaced after the obstruction clears,
rather than leaving the preview unusable for its lifetime. Use the supported
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- Around line 195-197: Update WebView_ProcessFailed to recover from an
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preview that was requested once the runtime is available again. Use the panel’s
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handling so a transient failure can be retried or the WebView2 replaced after
the obstruction clears, rather than leaving the preview unusable for its
lifetime. Use the supported initialization lifecycle and preserve existing
safeguards; establish the correct retry or replacement mechanism before
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Microsoft WebView2 official documentation BrowserProcessExited BrowserProcessExited ProcessFailed browser process crash recreate control recovery BrowserProcessExited
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Sources consulted:
- Handling process-related events in WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer documentation | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/process-related-events
- Handling process-related events in WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer documentation | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/process-related-events
- CoreWebView2Environment.BrowserProcessExited Event (Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core) | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2environment.browserprocessexited?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.3537.50
- Handling process-related events in WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer documentation | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/process-related-events?tabs=win32cpp
- CoreWebView2Environment.BrowserProcessExited Event (Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core) | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2environment.browserprocessexited?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.4022.49
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Microsoft WebView2 official documentation ProcessFailed browser process crash recreate control recovery
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- Handling process-related events in WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer documentation | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/process-related-events
- Handling process-related events in WebView2 - Microsoft Edge Developer documentation | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/process-related-events?tabs=win32cpp
- CoreWebView2ProcessFailedKind Enum (Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core) | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2processfailedkind
- CoreWebView2ProcessFailedKind | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/reference/winrt/microsoft_web_webview2_core/corewebview2processfailedkind?view=webview2-winrt-1.0.3719.77
- CoreWebView2.ProcessFailed Event (Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core) | Microsoft Learn — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core.corewebview2.processfailed?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.2903.40
- …and 9 more
Restore the preview after a browser-process crash.
When the browser process exits unexpectedly, WebView2 closes the control. This handler only logs the failure, so the preview remains unusable while the panel stays open. Recreate the control and restore the requested preview when the runtime is available again.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Low value
Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '1,220p' QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Webview/PlantUml/PuImagePanel.cs
sed -n '1,230p' QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Webview/Svg/SvgImagePanel.cs
cat QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Resources/Web/pu2html.html
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Remove the half-initialized control from the visual tree, dispose it,
and show the WebView2 install fallback so a failed controller creation
cannot crash the process when previewing SVG or HTML.
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Minor · Handle runtimes that do not expose PreferredColorScheme. · WebpagePanel.cs:204
QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer/WebpagePanel.cs:204 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Handle runtimes that do not expose PreferredColorScheme.
IsWebView2Available() accepts any installed runtime version. If that runtime does not support Profile.PreferredColorScheme, the setter can throw after initialization succeeds. This can prevent the process-failure and resource-request handlers from being registered, while the existing fallback is not shown because e.IsSuccess is true.
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- _webView.CoreWebView2.Profile.PreferredColorScheme = OSThemeHelper.AppsUseDarkTheme()- ? CoreWebView2PreferredColorScheme.Dark- : CoreWebView2PreferredColorScheme.Light;+ try+ {+ _webView.CoreWebView2.Profile.PreferredColorScheme = OSThemeHelper.AppsUseDarkTheme()+ ? CoreWebView2PreferredColorScheme.Dark+ : CoreWebView2PreferredColorScheme.Light;+ }+ catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException ex)+ when (ex.HResult == unchecked((int)0x80004002))+ {+ ProcessHelper.WriteLog($"WebView2 runtime does not support PreferredColorScheme: {ex}");+ }
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Handle runtimes that lack support for
_webView.CoreWebView2.Profile.PreferredColorScheme without aborting successful
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CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted: show a localized WebView2
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Use a separate fallback for WebView2 initialization failures.
When IsWebView2Available() succeeds but CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted reports !e.IsSuccess, CreateDownloadButton() shows the WEBVIEW2_NOT_AVAILABLE message. That message incorrectly says that WebView2 is not installed. Display a localized initialization-error message and an appropriate recovery action for this branch. Keep the download button for the availability check at the constructor.
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Add a separate fallback for the !e.IsSuccess branch in
CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted: show a localized WebView2
initialization-error message with an appropriate recovery action instead of
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The initialization failure path now removes and disposes the failed control and shows the existing WebView2 install fallback. Automatic retry/recovery and ImageMagick SVG fallback are intentionally separate follow-ups; this PR is scoped to the shared UDF configuration and the #2057 crash path.
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Problem
Fixes #2055.
All WebView2 panels share one
UserDataFolder(WebView2_Data), but the Font, CHM and PlantUML viewers additionally setAdditionalBrowserArguments(--enable-features=WebContentsForceDark) when the dark theme is active. WebView2 requires identical environment options for a shared UDF: the first environment wins and later panels fail to create with0x8007139F(ERROR_INVALID_STATE). The initialization failure was ignored, so every WebView2 preview stayed blank until QuickLook was restarted. Pinning a ForceDark panel keeps its environment alive and makes the failure sticky.Fix
CoreWebView2CreationPropertiesinWebpagePanel.CreateCreationProperties()and use it from bothWebpagePanelandSvgImagePanel, so no panel appends browser arguments.AdditionalBrowserArgumentsfromWebfontPanel,ChmWebpagePanelandPuImagePanel.CoreWebView2Profile.PreferredColorSchemeafter successful initialization instead.CoreWebView2.ProcessFailed.Files:
QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer/WebpagePanel.csQuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Webview/Svg/SvgImagePanel.csQuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.FontViewer/WebfontPanel.csQuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ChmViewer/ChmWebpagePanel.csQuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Webview/PlantUml/PuImagePanel.csValidation
0x8007139F;PreferredColorScheme = Dark->matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)')is true.QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer,ImageViewer,FontViewer,ChmViewer,MarkdownViewerandMailViewerbuild clean.Notes
WebContentsForceDarkmeans pages that hard-code light colors (e.g.font2html.html, some CHM content) may stay light in dark theme. This is the trade-off described in the issue; visual regression was not run.Summary by CodeRabbit
Also fixes #2057. If CoreWebView2 initialization fails, the panel now removes and disposes the half-initialized control and shows the WebView2 install fallback instead of leaving it in the visual tree.
Validation: built QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer and the five dependent plugin projects with the .NET 10 SDK. The failure path itself was not reproduced at runtime (it requires a machine where WebView2 controller creation fails).