New Comer Here: Black Page with upside down bird.
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I've never seen it over here, but it may be related to some camera/geolocation API…
Chromium browsers use many independent processes. Thus, if something happens, not the whole browser crashes on you, but only a particular part. In this case it's the Chromium engine trying to generate the image of the webpage you're seeing.
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Personally I've seen it (rarely) on some vBullettin / Searchlight based forums. Not on the regular forum pages, but on search results or personal pages, for example on pages where you are notified about someone who liked a post so, I believe, linking those pages would make little sense.
P.S. Usually a page refresh is enough to get rid of it.
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I checked my history, but as I have noticed in the past, the number "yesterday" sites available are very limited. When I click on "older" all I ever get is a new blank page. I opened a couple of the url's that it might be, but I can't get back very far.
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Thanks people. You're great. I still have XP and very happy with it. I've also not had any zombie take overs of my PC, LOL. Getting back to the belly up bird, I thought it might be one of my settings. Now, I'm not that sure. But I'll follow suit with what you recommended and copy the url and put it into a new tab. We'll see what happens then. Thanks people once again!
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on pages where you are notified about someone who liked a post so
Probably connected to HTML5 notifications API then… I'll try to reproduce.
upd: nope, I'm not able to crash anything with notifications (you can test them at https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/demos/e/l/elfoxero/c17223c414d8ddafb7808972b5617d9e/html5-notifications_1400214081_demo_package/index.html)
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upd: nope, I'm not able to crash anything with notifications (you can test them at https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/demos/e/l/elfoxero/c17223c414d8ddafb7808972b5617d9e/html5-notifications_1400214081_demo_package/index.html)
Nothing happen for me, no black birds, no interaction with the page (other than the language change switch), no popups.
I tried Opium out of curiosity and I got a popup.
P.S. ATM I have just "select like a boss" (your version, I believe) as enabled extension.
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Notification authorization isn't implemented yet. That's why I guessed it could be a possible crasher. You can click the padlock in address bar and enable them there to test it.
PS: Good choice. You should add modern scroll, though!
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Sure. SLaB is a mandatory extension. I have MS too, but I disabled it just to keep the browser clean during this kind of bug catcing…
Unfortunately I had an urgent call from a my client, so I have to solve a different kind of IT problem.
Given that I can't be more helpful here for some hours, as I have just my phone with me.
I'll try later for a way to trigger the bug in a more reproducible way.
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Dead bird happens randomly for me on x64 builds on websites with much JS / HTML5
Sometimes i leave the computer and Vivaldi idle…. and ater a few seconds >BANG!<. The bird commits suicide
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I use Vivaldi occasionally at home and office, and I had never seen the dead bird before.
Today, after updating to 1.0.167.2, I saw it for the first time.
It appeared when in my Facebook news feed I clicked on a link to Calisthenics Movement's Instagram page.
The new tab opened, filled with many image copies of the top left Vivaldi corner, repeated all over the tab content space horizontally and vertically. This mosaic stayed for a while, browser being unresponsive.
Then the dead bird sign appeared instead, centered at the tab content space.
I closed the tab, and it disappeared from the tab bar, yet the dead bird stayed occupying the screen, although the remaining tab now should have been showing Facebook.
I waited a few seconds, clicked Refresh, but nothing happened for a while, then the page finally refreshed and showed Facebook again.(To be honest, I don't really find the dead bird sign to indicate particularly nice taste of humor.)
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What better image you want?
It's a whole black page with a white bird in the middle.
It should give at least some indication of what broke, without words if possible as not everyone reads English.
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Must be Murphy's law, but since yesterday I didn't get any dead bird page, no matter the visited site or the enabled extensions.
If I start to got them again I'll surely report my findings here.
I'm sorry but I'm still unable to get what's your point.
The OP described clearly what happened, you said that you never seen that bird, I had a chance to grab it's image and I posted it.
From user's POV is more than enough to understand WHAT happened, what's important now is trying to help the DEVs to understand WHEN and WHERE it happens.
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From user's POV is more than enough to understand WHAT happened, what's important now is trying to help the DEVs to understand WHEN and WHERE it happens.
My point is that if anyone sees that dead bird icon it tells then nothing at all about what happened.
1. Did their Internet connection drop
2. Was it a javascript error?
3. …The icon and/or message should clearly indicate exactly what the problem was in non-technical terms. An icon could be designed for each case, with short text to clarify what the issue was. Calling something "Guru Meditation" for example is a joke, which soon tires, and again only tells the user that there was a problem. At least tell the user if it was a problem with the coding of the web page, or a problem with their service provider, that a process timed-out, or whatever.
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I think the only appropriate notation for the dead bird would be the general case of what it represents, and that is: "This page crashed." Mebbe down the road some script(s) could be developed that would tell the user just what sort of thing happened to the page, but for now at least, instead of the entire UI layer crashing and leaving us with a bunch of zombie processes in the background, at least we get the dead bird. For me, for now, that's OK.
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My point is that if anyone sees that dead bird icon it tells then nothing at all about what happened.
1. Did their Internet connection drop
2. Was it a javascript error?
3. …The icon and/or message should clearly indicate exactly what the problem was in non-technical terms. An icon could be designed for each case, with short text to clarify what the issue was. Calling something "Guru Meditation" for example is a joke, which soon tires, and again only tells the user that there was a problem. At least tell the user if it was a problem with the coding of the web page, or a problem with their service provider, that a process timed-out, or whatever.
Ok, I think that's a clear case of reciprocal misunderstanding. :S
Now I got it, you replied right after my message, and i got it as a complaint because my screenshot was partial (and I replied accordingly)
Instead you're blaming Google for the poorly informative page, I completely agree with you on that, it's a debatable joke, that become worse because the lack of any additional information.
At least the guru meditation provided some info useful at least for a technician.
I hope that all is clear now.
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The black dead bird page can easily be reproduced:
Open a page with a textarea, for example http://www.amazon.com
Enter some text into the textarea and submit it via the keyboard by pressing shift+return
The current tab turns black with upside-down bird and a new tab opens, which should load the result, but also crashes in some different way. It does some loading, but never displays anything. You can reload that page and it will show up, but the tab is still broken in some way, for example hovering over a link doesn't change the pointer or display target url in the status-bar. -
Eeeeeeeek something killed Twitter! Hahahahahahahahahahaha
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Confirmed on my system.
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Works fine here …
Win7x64 Vivaldi*32
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Vivaldi gives me the bird :ohmy: quite often, especially on two websites: weatherunderground.com and titantv.com. I keep these websites pinned in my browser, and I keep the browser open at all times. Vivaldi crashes about once per day, but it's also better than any other browser I have tried (esp. IE!!), so I just restart it and move on.
I am also on Win7x64 Vivaldi*32, technical preview 3.