Experimental Extension APIs
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I'd like to use an extension that requires "Experimental Extension APIs" to work.
I don't see this in the Vivaldi://flags page.
The reason is that Vivaldi apparently keeps crashing my Mac, and I'm getting real tired of it.
The extension in question is a tool designed to monitor Chrome browser processes and kill them if they start hogging the CPU. When this problem occurs I get a "beachball of death", the system heats up and at that point in almost every case the UI is dead and the only thing that seems to recover is powering off.
I posted here because the original problem is happening on a Mac but I can post in another forum if that would be more useful.
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Are you using Vivaldi stable or snapshot, and what version of macOS.
Any example urls that you know to cause the crashing?
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@Chas4 said in Experimental Extension APIs:
Are you using Vivaldi stable or snapshot, and what version of macOS.
Any example urls that you know to cause the crashing?
Latest patch of Mojave, always stable release version of Vivaldi. This has been happening through many versions of Vivaldi.
I haven't seen any obvious patterns as far as sites go, but CNN.com may be one of the more common sites open when it happens.
CNN has a nasty habit of sticking autoplay videos everywhere, so I just installed an extension to kill autoplay that seems to work, perhaps that will help.
Obviously autoplay videos by themselves shouldn't cause the browser to crash, but if I open several tabs all trying to launch videos at the same time, and it seems Vivaldi in MacOS is already buggy with video, perhaps that's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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There is a Chromium Command Line Switch you can try.
On Linux i open the terminal and run this command: vivaldi --enable-experimental-extension-apis
Not having a Mac i can only suggest what i found here
Quit any running instance of Vivaldi ,open the Terminal and run this command: open /Applications/Vivaldi.app --enable-experimental-extension-apisor
/Applications/Vivaldi.app --enable-experimental-extension-apis
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/Applications/Vivaldi.app/Contents/MacOS/Vivaldi --enable-experimental-extension-apis
based on these how-tos. -
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