Re: [Evolution] about:blank ???

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 16:05 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> From time to time, while composing and email in Evolution 3.18.5.2, the
> message I'm composing goes away and the composition window is
> overwritten with a small window which says:
>
> Unable to load page
> Problem occurred while loading the URL about:blank
> URL cannot be shown
>
> > Try again |
>
> "Try again" never works, and nothing I do will recover the lost
> message, which sometimes represents a considerable amount of work.
>
> As best I can tell, this always occurs when I'm entering a URL into an
> email, either by pasting or typing it, or when modifying or
> reformatting a URL already in the email. Googling for this error gives
> few hits, and only for web browsers, not email clients.
>
> Is there any way to keep this from happening? It never happened on the
> much earlier versions of Evolution which I use on other desktops.

Are you composing in Plain Text or in HTML? If the latter, perhaps it's
a Webkit problem. (I've never seen this but I never compose in HTML).

poc