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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.
Give the PlantUML consent-denied page an explicit white background; without ForceDark the #555 text sat on the panel's transparent (dark) background.
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.
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. The PlantUML consent-denied HTML now specifies a white background.
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, matching the reported failure path for blank HTML and Markdown previews. They do not establish that the issue’s controller-creation failure has the same cause.
Suggested reviewers:emako
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This change makes the preview panels share one WebView2 configuration, so the mismatch that left previews blank until restart should no longer occur. A failed initialization now shows a fallback instead of a broken control. Some edge cases remain minor: a browser-process crash or a transient initialization failure leaves that preview unusable, and the fallback message can wrongly say WebView2 is not installed. These can be followed up after merge.
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[#2055, #2057] Met at head: (a) WebpagePanel.CreateCreationProperties() centralizes CoreWebView2CreationProperties with the shared UserDataFolder. The per-viewer WebContentsForceDark arguments are rem…
For #2055: implement recovery for ProcessFailed (BrowserProcessExited, RenderProcessExited) and for failed initialization. Use a dispose-and-recreate path, with one retry after stale EBWebView singleton lock cleanup, as the issue expected b…
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The title names the main change: a shared WebView2 creation-properties (UDF) configuration across preview panels. The raw summary and objectives confirm that WebpagePanel and SvgImagePanel now use one…
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[#2055, #2057] The changes stay within the WebView2 failure objectives. The CreateCreationProperties() helper and the removal of ForceDark arguments from WebfontPanel, ChmWebpagePanel, PuImagePanel, a…
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The title names the main change: a shared WebView2 creation-properties (UDF) configuration across preview panels. The raw summary and objectives confirm that WebpagePanel and SvgImagePanel now use one CreateCreationProperties() helper, and that WebContentsForceDark arguments were removed from the Font, CHM, and PlantUML panels. The title uses the conventional fix(webview2): prefix and is specific, so it is not vague. It does not mention the removal of dark-theme browser arguments, the failure logging, or the ProcessFailed handling, but these are secondary to the shared-configuration change.
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[#2055, #2057] The changes stay within the WebView2 failure objectives. The CreateCreationProperties() helper and the removal of ForceDark arguments from WebfontPanel, ChmWebpagePanel, PuImagePanel, and SvgImagePanel address the shared-UDF mismatch. The PlantUML consent-denied page now uses a white background. This supports dark-theme readability after ForceDark removal, and the PR author documents it in the commit message. The ProcessFailed logging and the init-failure disposal and fallback address the #2055 and #2057 failure paths. No unrelated functional change was identified in the reviewed files.
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[#2055, #2057] Met at head: (a) WebpagePanel.CreateCreationProperties() centralizes CoreWebView2CreationProperties with the shared UserDataFolder. The per-viewer WebContentsForceDark arguments are removed from WebfontPanel, ChmWebpagePanel, and PuImagePanel, and the color scheme is set through CoreWebView2Profile.PreferredColorScheme after successful initialization. This addresses the configuration mismatch in #2055. (b) WebView_CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted now logs !e.IsSuccess, removes the control from the visual tree, disposes it, and shows the WebView2 install fallback. This addresses the init-failure path in #2057. [#2055] Unmet: the expected behavior requires that browser-process crashes and init failures be recovered (dispose and recreate, clear stale singleton locks) without an app restart. At head, WebView_ProcessFailed only writes a log entry. No retry, recreate, or EBWebView singleton lock cleanup exists in the reviewed code. [#2057] The ImageMagick SVG fallback and runtime-version validation are optional suggestions. The PR author and maintainer state they are follow-ups, so they are not counted as unmet. Automated tests for the shared configuration or the failure paths are not present in the PR summary.
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For #2055: implement recovery for ProcessFailed (BrowserProcessExited, RenderProcessExited) and for failed initialization. Use a dispose-and-recreate path, with one retry after stale EBWebView singleton lock cleanup, as the issue expected behavior describes. Alternatively, obtain a maintainer decision that removes recovery from #2055 scope. Add automated tests for shared creation properties and the failure path, or record why they are not feasible.
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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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Review comment at @QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.HtmlViewer/WebpagePanel.cs
around lines 181 - 184:
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
unexpected browser-process exit: recreate the WebView2 control and restore the
preview that was requested once the runtime is available again. Use the panel’s
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@QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.ImageViewer/Webview/PlantUml/PuImagePanel.cs:
- Line 34: Update the consent-denial HTML generated in PuImagePanel.Preview to
use a contrasting white background while preserving its existing text color,
layout, and other styling.
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handling so a transient failure can be retried or the WebView2 replaced after
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safeguards; establish the correct retry or replacement mechanism before
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Implement recovery for initialization failures and browser-process crashes,
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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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_webView.CoreWebView2.Profile.PreferredColorScheme without aborting successful
WebView2 initialization. Catch only the specific unsupported-feature failure
around this assignment, and allow process-failure and resource-request handler
registration to continue; let unrelated failures propagate.
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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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Removing WebContentsForceDark leaves the consent-denied page on the panel's transparent background, so the QL-Win#555 text was drawn over the dark window background. Give the page an explicit white background.
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RenderProcessExited) and for failed initialization. Use a dispose-and-recreate
path, with one retry after stale EBWebView singleton lock cleanup, as the issue
expected behavior describes. Alternatively, obtain a maintainer decision that
removes recovery from #2055 scope. Add automated tests for shared creation
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On the outside-diff PreferredColorScheme point: the property was introduced together with CoreWebView2Profile (runtime 1.0.1108, Nov 2021). On a runtime without the profile API, CoreWebView2.Profile fails before the setter, so guarding only the assignment would not help. The last Win7-compatible runtime (109 / 1.0.1518) already supports it, and QuickLook uses the evergreen runtime. I left the assignment unguarded rather than add a speculative catch that could mask real failures.
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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.#555text sat on the panel's transparent (dark) background.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.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).