Solved [Resolved] Dead bird keeps appearing
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Dead bird keeps appearing when searching for something
or trying to watch a video on YouTube
but, disappears once the page is reloaded and then reappears again after a few seconds. This is really annoying. Is there a workaround for the issue? Would be glad if someone could help. My Vivaldi version is 3.4.2066.106 (Stable channel) (64-bit).
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ModEdit: Image + Text Reformat
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FINALLY SOLVED THE ISSUE! I was facing this issue as I was having Windows 10 Home N. The Windows 10 Home N is a version of Windows 10 that comes without media-related technologies (Windows Media Player) and certain preinstalled media apps (Music, Video, Voice Recorder, and Skype). Basically, an operating system with no media capabilities. I was able to rectify this issue after downloading the Media Feature Pack from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack. Thank you for all the help I am really grateful.
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@Phil95 Could also try to disable/remove extensions to see if it still happens?
I see, it seems, a g00gle docs extension which may not work. -
@Hadden89 I tried removing the extension but still it does not work.
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Things you could try:
- Clear site data (cookies will be lost)
- Clearing the cache
- Disable/make per-site exclusion in the adblocker
- New clean profile
- Test in private or guest mode
- test with a "clean" standalone snapshot/stable [link];
- Report a bug (some fixes were made in snapshot and could be addressed in a minor stable update).
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@Hadden89 I did all the above mentioned things, but the issue still persists. I have also reported the bug.
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@Phil95 I forgot one thing... what is your GPU?
Try to go in settings > webpages > uncheck hardware acceleration > restart vivaldi and see if it works. -
@Hadden89 My GPU is Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000. I went to settings > webpages > unchecked hardware acceleration and then restarted vivaldi but the problem still persists. But thank you for your help.
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@Phil95 Well, thanks to you for the report. Intel HD GPUs are pretty problematics on chromiums.
But is very very strange that disabling HW acceleration or the snapshot didn't solved.
Let us know the VB number you got and you may try to ask the status here a week or two after your report.
Also, you forgot to post your OS, which is probably 7 or 10 x64 (I guess) and check if there's a newer Intel GPU driver for you on windows update or the site. -
@Hadden89 My operating system is Windows 10 OS Version 1909 (Build 18363.836)
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@Phil95 I don't know your driver version (you may see that at
vivaldi://gpu
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@Hadden89 My current driver version is 9.17.10.4459
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Try 3.5 dev build as a standalone install. Bet you can't reproduce, since birdies seem solved there.
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@rseiler I tried the 3.5 dev build but the problem still reoccurs.
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@Phil95 Right after installing (before changing anything), and with a simple search?!
If it's not before making changes, what did you change?
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@rseiler Yup, right after installing and before changing anything, and with a simple search.
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@Phil95 The drivers come from the device or from windows update? I guess it's a notebook/netbook born with windows 8 (looking at the lack of the updated drivers).
You can probably try to force the updated win 8.1 drivers which are on 15.x.x.x and may works on win 10 too. But I can't assure they will work or fix the issue. The choice is yours.Better stick with MS drivers.
Also, do you experience troubles/slowdowns with other apps?? Which kind of device is? Model?
Checked your system for infections? (But I really don't see a relationship, but worth trying). -
@Hadden89 Because of Intel's weird dual-naming system, it'll more likely show as 9.x:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=intel+graphics+3000Either 9.17.10.4229 or 9.17.10.4259 is what he likely has, since the driver is ancient at this point and WU would have long ago updated it. And it'll never be updated again, so hopefully this isn't the issue.
I'd be curious if the problem occurs on Opera, Chrome, Brave.
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@rseiler Yes, I still don't understand how it is possible it doesn't work with HW acceleration off. Seems more an hardware fault this point or some OS corruption. But we have to know if other things are working fine.
The card is probably blacklisted and still wondering if the OP has enabledchrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
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@Hadden89 That’s exactly it. I used to run an HD3000 and that was the flag which enabled acceleration. But I never saw any dead birds. Wonder whether it’s another issue altogether.
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FINALLY SOLVED THE ISSUE! I was facing this issue as I was having Windows 10 Home N. The Windows 10 Home N is a version of Windows 10 that comes without media-related technologies (Windows Media Player) and certain preinstalled media apps (Music, Video, Voice Recorder, and Skype). Basically, an operating system with no media capabilities. I was able to rectify this issue after downloading the Media Feature Pack from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack. Thank you for all the help I am really grateful.