diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt
index 0000a585c450..eabdd06b4c52 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ constructor(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet?) :
 
     private var wasCommitCalled = false
 
+    /** What [loadUrl] was last given: the only page whose failure is this document's. */
+    private var loadedUrl: String? = null
+
     private var isBridgeAttached = false
 
     init {
@@ -79,7 +82,12 @@ constructor(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet?) :
 
                     buggyWebViewHandler.postDelayed(
                         {
-                            if (!wasCommitCalled) {
+                            // [url] and not whatever is loaded now: this callback can arrive after
+                            // another page was asked for, which cancels the retries queued until
+                            // then but not the one queued here. wasCommitCalled is about the page
+                            // being waited on, so on its own it would answer for that other page
+                            // and put this one back over it
+                            if (!wasCommitCalled && url == loadedUrl) {
                                 crashManager.log(RuntimeException("commit was not called"))
 
                                 loadUrl(url)
@@ -316,6 +324,14 @@ constructor(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet?) :
         // the third party viewers an ONLINE result loads here. takes effect on the next load
         if (!url.startsWith(JAVASCRIPT_SCHEME)) {
             attachBridge(isOwnContent(url))
+
+            // a page that never committed left a retry waiting in onPageFinished. Now that another
+            // page has been asked for, that retry would load the old one back over it - and the
+            // document it belonged to has taken its server with it, so what it would find there is
+            // a 404 this page is then given up on for
+            buggyWebViewHandler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null)
+
+            loadedUrl = url
         }
 
         super.loadUrl(url)
@@ -339,6 +355,13 @@ constructor(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet?) :
             return
         }
 
+        // and only the page being shown. A request made for a document already closed can still be
+        // answered here, long after the page moved on, and the document on screen is not the one
+        // that failed
+        if (loadedUrl != null && url.toString() != loadedUrl) {
+            return
+        }
+
         documentFragment.onPageFailed()
     }