It was working all right in 2.8.0, now in 2.8.2 all it does is creates an image filled with grayish noise.
The size is 1024x11313 px, width is set to default, height seems to be normal for this kind of thing.
It's Gimp Chat home page, btw. The same result with other sites.
Anyone else having the same problem?

Idk about that but what is create from webpage?

GIMP Menu bar - File>Create>From Webpage...

GIMP 2.8.x only, was no such a feature in previous versions

Did you obtain you builds from the same source? My first thought is that your 2.8.2 build did not include Webkit support.

i get this same issue using 2.8.2

it is a bit daft having an option if the programming for that option isn't included

Mine does the same thing. I enlarged the frame to 200% and I could see it clearly so I saved it to desktop. I opened it with image viewer but you have to enlarge it in there too, in able to read it.

Molly, here's what i see when i enlarge my webpage created with GIMP

at 200%


at 1100%

It's 2.8.0 on my Win 7 laptop and it works fine. Must be a 2.8.2 bug. Molly, are you using Win or Linux, i forgot?
I was hoping for more feedback including folks using Mac and Linux before I can report a bug.

@saulgoode: i used win installer, so presumably GTK webkit is from the same source. At least, I found it in GIMP Program directory. Could that be web-page/web-browser plugins causing the problem?

Sorry Kit. I am using Linux Fedora-17 (64-bit) and Gimp 2.8.2 (64-bit)

You're a lucky Linux user, molly!

Windows versions of GIMP are notorious for large amount of bugs! So i'm not surprised.
But was there a problem with your first try to create from webpage on Linux?

No, there was no problem. I was just kind of confused when I saw this long skinny image, I didn't know what it was. That is when I went to the bottom and selected 100% and it was fine. [ But what good is it?]
Here is another one. I just pasted in the link to this site.

I checked GNOME Bugzilla list and there is one bug report dating 6/6/2012 (so it must be 2.8.0) about create from webpage plugin crashing on Linux.
I still don't have enough feedback from Windows users here to go ahead and file a bug report.

On Windows Xp sp3 using the "Official" Gimp 2.8.2 I get similar results to you. Although I only get plain grey.

Kevin

Thank you, Kevin!

tried to open a few websites, all came back with a white screen, then i got this error message

If it is a Windows only problem then i may guess the culprit

The same that prevent to open the Gimp help (with the default option) in Win:

Only from the windows build somebody decided to remove the Gimp browser plugin that allows to open html pages

So as the gimp help in windows cannot be opened (if not using a external browser ) the "create from webpage" may only fail because in the win version of gimp there is no more something that may open web pages...it was but was removed

So only fix would be reinstall the gimp browser
(that anyway was removed because in Win was quite buggy ).

looking better the WebKitGtk page i believe i was right :

It is required by the Gimp browser to work, but without the gimp browser the poor webkitgtk has nothing to do in gimp :
except wait for calls that will never come

Not trying to take away from the topic but ehm..And what does that do? lol
What's the point of that. :S