Uncloseable media spontaneously opens, only option is to quit app

[seascape]

• Your OS: Win10 x64
• App version: 0.2.6

For some reason certain media (always images?) that appear in a user's timeline will automatically open/maximize as the timeline loads the toots containing them. It is reproducible in that when a certain image post does this, it will always do it.

No further input will remove the maximized image. My impression is that the browser guts of MSTDN is loading the image URL directly, effectively navigating away from the Mastodon UI. I suspect if MSTDN had a "navigate back" command I could recover out of this.

The alt-menus still respond but the only two actions that will escape this situation are changing accounts or exiting the app.

This has been occurring for some weeks now and I was reminded when it happened just now. Screenshot of today's rogue image:

I have no idea what makes some media posts trigger this.

I have also observed this behavior when clicking a profile's hamburger menu and choosing "media." In today's case clicking the same user's "media" link, instead of maximizing the rogue image, leads to a white screen. Again, the alt-menu is still responsive.

Please PM me if you would like the username of the account hosting the media toot that is triggering this today.

[qguv]

I've also had this issue sporadically as long as I've used mstdn.

[dol231]

same here (manjaro + mstdn 0.2.6-1)