Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9
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Today’s release of a minor update to Vivaldi 1.9 resolves some known issues.
Click here to see the full blog post
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First post!
Lovely update!
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2nd
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I like the picture in this blog post. It works well as a Startpage background
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@axander I think the first is already in the Feature Requests thread. Try a search.
Post each feature request as a separate post as stated in the start of the thread.
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@d0j0p: Yes, I thought the sculpture looks quite cool, too.
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@Kaynon What happens if you refresh your profile?
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@Kaynon I would. Something appears to be interfering with your Vivaldi - there is nothing in the code of the browser that would cause the problem you're having, as nearly as I can tell. We don't have a standard solution for it, because it's never happened to anyone before. This or that user has expressed trouble with installing a specific extension - usually one that is not compatible with Vivaldi. But there is not a trait of Vivaldi that generally causes it to freeze every time a person tries to install any extension.
We did have a user report a freeze when trying to install a night mode extension, but no one internally was able to reproduce that problem.
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@Kaynon Very interesting. If you install Vivaldi in the Default manner, Windows will detect it and show it as an installed program in the Control Panel. If you install it standalone, then in Win10 at least, not sure about Win7, Windows will often not have an uninstall item for it. Further, Win10 may develop some real problems letting you install, move, or add versions of Vivaldi or their folders - even prevent you from installing an earlier version if you have or have had a later version. I've not seen this cause extension problems, but I have seen it cause password problems and other odd behavior.
There is a provision in the Advanced installer dialogue that lets you register a standalone version while installing. I don't know if this would alleviate such problems, or make them worse.
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@Kaynon - That should usually suffice.
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I was about to try out Advanced REST Client extension and unfortunately Vivaldi did a terrible boo boo again! It failed to start when I added "--show-app-list" to startup script and when I killed it, it failed to start again and finally when it started after I removed "--show-app-list " I lost all of my tabs. No trace of dozens of tabs except 5 or 6 in history. Clicking on trash can icon shows window with 1 tab which is an empty start page. This is a terrible bug. It is not the first time I am losing dozens of tabs. Please add a feature like autosaving last 10 tabs list with timestamped file name so at least we can go back and restore tabs. Only one Last Tabs definitely does not help at all when things go wrong.
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@gwen-dragon: Bug can live. I want a new feature: auto-saving last 10 sessions so I can recover lost tabs easily. Adding this feature might be easier than reproducing and fixing that bug.
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@gwen-dragon: Will do; thank you!
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@Kaynon Your guess is as good as mine.
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@Kaynon: Wow. That's a completely unexpected (but good to know) fact.
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@Kaynon Hardware acceleration uses the memory and processing power of your graphics card (such as it may be) to render images, video, etc. It thereby reduces some of the load on the CPU, which will otherwise use software rendering to show the same stuff.
On some machines, this makes the browser react faster and more smoothly. On others, it is a disaster because the media format and/or content is incompatible with your system's hardware drivers - or the browser itself sends commands that your system's graphics card driver cannot understand.
So in some cases, it speeds things up and makes a more efficient configuration. In others, it either slows, corrupts or prevents media from being shown.
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@Kaynon If you're looking for more in-depth technical details, there are some interesting documents on the Chromium web site.
This one's getting a bit old and mouldy but gives a good overview of the benefits of using the GPU hardware to accelerate compositing:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-accelerated-compositing-in-chrome
The Chromium GPU stack is also in the process of being revamped and I believe this document depicts the most up-to-date roadmap and current state of completion on various platforms:
And vivaldi://gpu will provide you with the status of GPU hardware acceleration on your current system.
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Dont want to sound rude or anything, but when is the next update coming out? Thanks everyone!
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@rhstogus There are no calendar deadlines for these things. The general drive is to basically keep up (on a week or so delay) with the changes in the Chromium code, and it is updated at about six week intervals. The next stable update may be (or may not be) sometime around the middle of June. In the meantime, Snapshots will continue to come out about weekly (or so). Nothing will be released that contains bad problems for the public.
Right now, it's my impression that Scandinavian holidays and vacations are thinning the development staff - so things might be expected to be running a bit behind.