Solved Broken text on tabs
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@npro yes, right about everything except for the OS. My laptop does come with Windows installed, but I'm running Linux on it. And yes, the topic you shared is exactly my issue, thank you very much!
I do know what CPU and GPU stand for, I just had no idea which exact models my laptopt has
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Ever since Vivaldi 5, when I have multiple tabs open Al the tab text blends together. I've tried all the settings and a fresh install. No matter, I still have the issue. It I am on and Arch based distribution of the product on linux, specifically Garuda Linux Dr4g0nized, so it seems weird to me that I haven't encountered anyone else complaining of this issue, but I will include a screenshot of it hoping it gets ameliorated:
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@Dave123456 Take a look at this earlier thread and the thread linked to there. They may be the same issue.
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@tomica Try to get latest driver from Intel website.
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@DoctorG thanks for the suggestion. Installing drivers on Linux is waaaay more difficult than in Windows
I'm afraid I am stuck until a newer Linux kernel is published with new drivers - no way am I gonna try to compile the kernel myself. I'd probably end up with a broken leg or something 
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@tomica Fiddling with Intel driver issues can be nasty and time consuming.
Better way: use modern (or backported) kernel, try latest Intel non-free firmware and other Intel non-free modules. -
@tomica Have you tried disabling just the rasterization with
vivaldi-stable --disable-gpu-rasterizationto see if it solves the scrambling? I know, well someone has to try it at some point, otherwise what are we all doing here?
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It is definitely an intel graphics problem with Vivaldi, but only vivalid.
If I run it using discrete graphics card (nvidia) the issue goes away.
Running Fedora 36 here. -
@tomica new kernel didn't fix it for me, I'm on a third kernel version since installing version 5.2 and I still have the problem.
If you have dual GPU use other GPU for your browser, seems like the problem is related to using the intel hardware.
Other wise disablingGPU rasterizationfixes it as well, that's a permanent flag you can set in vivaldi. -
@npro said in Broken text on tabs:
--disable-gpu-rasterization
Ok so in the browser if I navigate to
vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
and disable it and relaunch it does solve the issue of the tab text being all distorted. -
I hadn't seen this issue at all until I installed Kubuntu 22.04, then I got the garbled tab text. Disabling hardware acceleration in settings as suggested on page 1 fixed it for me. Thanks!
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Everyone, please do not refer to disabling hardware accelleration as "solution" to this issue. Hardware accelleration is important, and we should not be forced to give it up to get readable text in Vivaldi. I'm hoping this gets fixed soon, either by Vivaldi, or with a graphic card driver update.
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Same on Fedora 36, nee to fix this.
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Does setting fo a internal flag as described at https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/592313 help you?
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@DoctorG said in Broken text on tabs:
Does setting fo a internal flag as described at https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/592313 help you?
This works for me. I was able to re-enable hardware acceleration and the tabs are still readable with this flag set.
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@GyozaGuy Congrats, you've solved it.
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I'm also having the issue with garbled text in my tabs, just like @cmccullough. I see Intel Xe graphics mentioned a few times, that is also what I'm using. Could this be the culprit? If so, who do we report this bug to? Vivaldi or Intel?
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@jcs224 If that is a driver issue, Intel bug tracker is the correct to report.
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I am having the same issue, I have put in a bug report.
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hi everyone,
Since I updated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, I get this weird thing.
Somehow it only happened on my work computer, not my personal one.
Also only happens with the binary from the official repo.
I did not get the error, when, for the sake of trying, I installed vivaldi from nix-env.
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