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Activating Chrome extension over PDF causes page to refresh and jump to title page of PDF
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Description
## Bug report form
### Steps to reproduce
1. Open a PDF (either saved locally or hosted elsewhere) in the browser (for example, [this one from MIT Press](https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262018470_Open_Access_Edition.pdf))
2. Use one of the hyperlinks in the Table of Contents to scroll to a specific page (i.e., the start of Chapter 4)
3. Activate the Hypothesis Chrome extension
### Expected behaviour
One would expect the side bar to pop over the part of the text currently in view.
### Actual behaviour
Instead, the page refreshes and jumps back to the title page of the PDF.
### Browser/system information
Chrome on MacOS, using the h Chrome extension
### Additional details
We can advise users to activate the h extension *before* navigating through the PDF in the meantime. However, this is not in line with how one would expect to use the product. I don't always read something with the intention of annotating - sometimes it just happens that I'm reading and find something interesting, so I switch on the extension to annotate.
See support ticket here: https://hypothesis.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/2001
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the problem in the Chrome extension on macOS using the linked MIT Press PDF: navigate via its table of contents, then activate the extension. Done means the sidebar opens without refreshing the PDF or moving the reader away from the currently viewed page.
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Assessment
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100