More HTML5 audio fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.15.1147.23
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In today’s snapshot we make further progress with HTML5 audio issues.
Click here to see the full blog post
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What was the cause of the issue ?
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Good to see 38880 fixed.
Also, for @QuHno and SagaraS.
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Just tested the mouseout, seems to work fine now concerning Vivaldi UI including panel and extensions
Thanks for fixing this, it was kind of annoying. -
Opening tabs sometimes crash Vivaldi. I hope it is solved now ?
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AAC has several different optional features, some of which allow the sample rate of a stream to be compressed for transmission, and re-expanded for playback (look into HE and SBR if you want the gritty details). In some places, the code would get confused about whether it was dealing with the compressed sample rate or the expanded sample rate, and would sometimes use them the wrong way around. This only showed up with very specific sets of sample rates and AAC options, so while it sounds like a simple problem, it really wasn't simple to narrow down the cause.
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Usually not a big fan of doing this, but out of curiosity could someone give me a status update on VB-35892?
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@tarquin: I see, thanks ! Your explanation is very understandable
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Has the issue been fixed of crash when clicking on URLs outside Vivaldi? A blocker for me.
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@dicks Test again and see.
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@gwen-dragon: I had this too and it was very annoying. Also because all open tabs were killed too.
As it is not mentioned it is probably not fixed.
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@Gwen-Dragon But has it been officially reported? I have seen many users explaining they encountered this issue, but no ticket ID in any message... @dicks If not done yet, it may be worth it
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@gwen-dragon ok thanks!
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Still does not launch maximized.
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Yes, yes , yes - thank you for 4this one!!
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@gwen-dragon: Thanks
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With exciting new features, like our Window background image support, Vivaldi 1.15 is starting to look (and sound) pretty good.
Except for the fact that you can't interact with certain things (embedded YouTube videos, Google reCAPTCHA, some abnormal form fields, the LastPass extension popups, etc) when "Strict site isolation" is turned on. I guess if we want extra security in Vivaldi, we have to live with a half-functional browser...
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@gt500 There is no reason for Vivaldi to turn itself inside out to try to offer full support of an experimental "security" feature that doesn't even work fully in its own "parent" browser, and causes unresolved problems in all Chromium-based apps. When it's working and released without bugs "at home," the developers can worry about how well it works in Vivaldi.
One thing that is unlikely to ever be resolved about Strict Site Isolation is that it causes the browser to gobble resources like there's no tomorrow because, by design, it spawns a new process for every single tab opened in any manner whatever, plus for individual iframes, while even Chrome has tried to solve the RAM- and CPU-hammering problems it has brought into the browser world by letting all tab opened by links within the same tab, to run in the same process.
So if Vivaldi's failure, (like Chrome) to use a half-broken feature makes it a half-functional browser, that will have to be the case for the near future.
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Not sure: but opening links in mail still results in forced closure... this is still an issue or is it just me? use I mac version
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@ayespy: You forget that Google recommended turning this feature on as an extra protection against the exploitation of certain CPU side-channel vulnerabilities.
Also, note that "Strict site isolation" is working fine in Google Chrome. It also works fine in Vivaldi 1.14, but not in 1.15.
Considering the recommendation to turn this feature on for security that was given by Google, and passed on by many security experts and news sites, this is not a good thing to leave this horribly broken, or try to blame on Google when it does not appear to be their fault (<- and that comes from someone who doesn't like Google).