Bug 729779 - Allow Scrubbing History; don't re-load URLs when converting metadata
Allow Scrubbing History; don't re-load URLs when converting metadata
Status: NEW
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
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Reported: 2014-05-08 06:22 UTC by jesse
Modified: 2014-05-08 06:22 UTC (History)
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Description jesse 2014-05-08 06:22:56 UTC 
I came across this complaint about evince, and thought it worthwhile to enter it as a bug report.

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/AllowScrubbingHistory

The relevant passage is: 

The recent irritating example of this is evince, which wins a special bonus prize for not merely storing the full paths or URLs of many PDFs that you've viewed but also apparently re-accessing them when it converts metadata during some of its version upgrades. Hopefully I do not need to explain why randomly accessing URLs out of the blue is a very bad idea.
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