Switching video to full screen is slow
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@0asdf
Hi, as I mention in my post it is the same on Chrome and Edge(ium), Edge need two steps, on Windows 10 Pro 2004 (was the same on 1909).
I have no time to search in the Chromium bug tracker but I guess there are reports, too.Cheers, mib
Opensuse Tumbleweed x86_64 KDE 6.2 X11, Windows 11 Pro, Vivaldi latest
HP Probook Intel(R) i5-8350U 16 GB, GPU UHD 620, SSD 256 GB
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Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite Android 12 -
Don't even need to go fullscreen, open a panel and the page resizing "redrawing" is laggy, then close it, it has a laggy animation again, every time. It also happens when you open the Ctrl+F (find in page) bar, a laggy experience overall.
My conclusion is YouTube pages must be very heavy for the engine to redraw in different resolutions in real time like this.
Firefox transition "cheats" by fading the screen (does it even redraw the page like this behind the scenes if one manages to disable the fading?).And yeah it's the same on Chromium, so it's doubly Google's fault.
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@mib2berlin
Thanks for pointing that out, I read before that it could be a general Chrome/Chromium issue, so hopefully it'll be fixed at some point.
Some user reports are contradictory though, they only seem to experience the lag in Vivaldi, or at least not as severe in other browsers.@rluik
You're right, it's the same with opening and closing panels. I just forgot about it because I'm using floating panels where this doesn't happen. Basically toggling any of Vivaldi's UI elements can cause lag on YouTube (Twitch, Vimeo, etc.).I wouldn't really say Firefox is cheating though, because the fading transition obviously only happens when making the video go full screen. But setting Firefox itself to full screen (also F11) or opening any sidebar is also lag-free in Firefox.
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This is embarrassing and needs to be dealt with.
I was going to give Vivaldi another shot, but still not this time.
It's terrible that they ignore such basic usability stuff.
If your graphical stack sucks so much, putting a powerful CPU and GPU to the knees, then why would even consider packing your UI with a ton of animations that doesn't work??!It seems like Vivaldi is being created as a proof of concept, but not as a usable thing.
Goodbye Vivaldi for another 2 years.(mod edit: language)
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This old problem is very annoying. I hope to see it fixed someday
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I wrote about this kind of problem some time ago https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/40969/very-non-smooth-youtube-page-window-scaling. I don't think it's Vivaldi's full screen mode problem because in my case scaling and going full screen is pretty smooth on twitch or vimeo unlike YT.
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Same problem for me.
Full screen(F11) lags everywhere, not youtube or other online video only. -
I got so sick of this YouTube fullscreen toggle lag that I spent a night devising a fix, and created a Chrome extension / Tampermonkey script for it:
https://github.com/ZimbiX/youtube-fast-fullscreen-toggle
This thread is the first Google search result for 'youtube fullscreen slow' which still permits replies, so thanks for indulging me despite it not being built for Vivaldi. I have yet to look into making Vivaldi extensions, and I don't know about the Vivaldi performance issue, but this should at least solve the problem with Chrome. And the script may still help on Vivaldi too - let me know
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@ZimbiX said in YouTube normal to fullscreen transition lags, becomes larger in steps:
I got so sick of this YouTube fullscreen toggle lag that I spent a night devising a fix, and created a Chrome extension / Tampermonkey script for it:
https://github.com/ZimbiX/youtube-fast-fullscreen-toggle
This thread is the first Google search result for 'youtube fullscreen slow' which still permits replies, so thanks for indulging me despite it not being built for Vivaldi. I have yet to look into making Vivaldi extensions, and I don't know about the Vivaldi performance issue, but this should at least solve the problem with Chrome. And the script may still help on Vivaldi too - let me knowNot working for me using Tampermonkey, I'll wait for Chrome Web Store extension version. Maybe because I've got only 1 sec lag, but it's still worse than in Firefox.
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@Gregor That's a shame it's not working for you. The original version of the extension's been approved on the Chrome Web Store now, but I have tonight managed to improve it further to bring the performance in Chrome close to what it is in Firefox - near instant. Let me know if you have better luck with either the new script in Tampermonkey, or the Chrome Web Store version.
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Still not working (both versions), but maybe it's on my side (Win7, fullhd). I do not know what affects it.
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Damn. I'll have to do some more testing on other machines
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Ok, I've finally actually tested it in Vivaldi - bug filed here
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I never experienced this issue until the update to the .36 version then it happened, so then I went back to the .34 and the issue went away. I hope this gets resolved by the Vivaldi team as it's the best browser I've used up until this point.
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@Gregor said in YouTube normal to fullscreen transition lags, becomes larger in steps:
I wrote about this kind of problem some time ago https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/40969/very-non-smooth-youtube-page-window-scaling. I don't think it's Vivaldi's full screen mode problem because in my case scaling and going full screen is pretty smooth on twitch or vimeo unlike YT.
Vimeo is god damn fast switching fullscreen. Instantly. Twitch, a little slower. Youtube is the worst and very annoying experience.
@ZimbiX said in YouTube normal to fullscreen transition lags, becomes larger in steps:
Ok, I've finally actually tested it in Vivaldi - bug filed here
The script version is enough for me and improve the speed feeling. Thanks.
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Updated to the latest Vivaldi version and to give it the best chance I also updated my graphics drivers and it seems ok now.
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@ZimbiX said in YouTube normal to fullscreen transition lags, becomes larger in steps:
Ok, I've finally actually tested it in Vivaldi - bug filed here
I tested this as a Tampermonkey script - it seems to work pretty well, nice work
You won't don't notice that much difference just from making a video full screen after loading - but if you scroll down and load a lot of comments the transition to full screen is much smoother than it used to be. The two-step lag has always seemed to be related to how many comments are loaded on-screen, at least for me.
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Someone made a post on this a few weeks back, since the latest stable update its got even worse.
4 seconds for youtube to go full screen and 3 seconds to go back.
Also getting stutering on web pages, and lag for right click menu's to appear.
cpu 9900k gpu 3800 RTX 32 gig ram.
I suggest do a feature freeze until the performance issues are handled as it appears to be some kind of dev race to add new features.
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It's working for me now, thanks.
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I currently encounter the same problem.
Even if i've used the Tampermonkey Script it doesn't work properly.
Why is that thing only doing this only on Vivaldi ?
I use it everyday but see this bug since a lot of versions without any changes
