Vivaldi hangs on various sites containing video
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I've reported this 2-3 snapshots before. It's a specific process that causes the hang. If you kill it in something like procexp the browser returns to normal (and executed commands like "new tab" that you gave while it was frozen).
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I have practically no knowledge about the internals of browsers. But the thing that first came to my mind was to disable GPU acceleration, but first I wanted to discuss the problem here. I guess the process you showed is responsible for GPU accel, too.
Disabling the GPU acceleration might be a workaround until the devs fix this. Can be done here: chrome://settings/
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@daerragh I was going to mention that looked like a GPU problem...
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@neonturbo I had the same issue on a GTX 960 and had to disable harware acceleration because of that. Incidentally I upgraded recently to 1070ti and have not experienced the issue since, with hw acceleration enabled. I'll presume that you already are using the latest drivers.
Please DM me the nsfw site, I'd like to give it another test.
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@neonturbo said in Vivaldi hangs on various sites containing video:
I am not sure, but I have a hunch that this is related to a certain GPU family, brand, or type. I have asked others if they have the same video card as I do, but nobody bothered to respond or post what their system has. I have a Gigabyte GTX1660 on Win10 for the record.
The hangs are happening on both of my machines: desktop with GTX 1060 6GB and laptop with HD Graphics 520.
Yesterday, I disabled the GPU acceleration and Vivaldi hasn't hang at video sites since.
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@Gwen-Dragon OK, I'm on the latest 3.0 snapshot now and have re-enabled GPU acceleration. I'll report the bug if Vivaldi hangs again.
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@mtaki14 i get the freezing on my 1070ti so it's also affecting Pascal. Not on the latest snapshot yet.
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@t0yz said in Vivaldi hangs on various sites containing video:
@mtaki14 i get the freezing on my 1070ti so it's also affecting Pascal. Not on the latest snapshot yet.
Yeah, I've just been trying to reproduce the bug and indeed it happens on this card as well.
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I'd like to ask everyone that has experienced the bug mentioned in this thread to try for a few days with hardware acceleration turned off (Settings> Webpages> Turn off "Use hardware acceleration when available").
This will probably not fix your bug but the reason I ask is because with hw acceleration disabled, for me it manifests itself as the browser still responding but sites completely stop loading. Here's a thread where that bug is described:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/45236/vivaldi-suddenly-cannot-open-any-web-pages/
I would like to confirm whether these two bugs are linked or not, because if they are then the same problem is much more widespread.
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I'm on the latest snapshot with GPU acceleration on - the browser still hangs. So I disabled GPU acceleration and will post results later.
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@neonturbo Thanks for the confirmation.
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I'm running the latest snapshot from today with GPU acceleration disabled.
Now instead of hanging the whole browser, only the tab with video hangs. The tab can be closed, but from now on any new tab (even w/o video) hangs instanteneously upon launch (just the new tab, not the whole browser) and I have to relaunch the browser to make new tabs work again. The tabs that have been already running before launching the tab with video work OK though.
So it seems disabling acceleration isn't a good workaround.
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@daerragh You are getting a VERY odd reaction to disabling hardware acceleration. I've never seen anything like it.
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@Ayespy neither did I. This whole video hanging the browser thing is the biggest issue I've had with Vivaldi since 2015. Before, there were just some minor quirks.
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@daerragh And to solve it here, I only needed ad blocking (prevented the videos running in background). But we have had numerous users disable GPU acceleration for one reason or another, and no one has ever had browser hangs or weird tab behavior as a result. I wonder if there is some other factor at work here.
What happens if you refresh your profile?
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@Ayespy I've got Vivaldi's built-in ad blocking enabled.
I'm just gonna reinstall from scratch, it will be faster and less problem prone.
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@daerragh Reinstalling almost certainly won't do anything. Refreshing your profile will.
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@Ayespy said in Vivaldi hangs on various sites containing video:
@daerragh Reinstalling almost certainly won't do anything. Refreshing your profile will.
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@mtaki14 Well, that sux. Doesn't do it here any more.
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"Me too".
One thing that on my system will reliably cause the hang is scrolling over a video preview on the Bing search results page. I also had Viv hang the same way when closing the Desmos graphing calculator page, after clicking the "Yes I really do want to leave your website" popup.
This has been a quite frequent bug for a couple of weeks for me now. Using latest snapshot as of this posting.