Solved Broken text on tabs

[DoctorG]

@Persister mib2berlin said in Broken text on tabs:

@ingo-steinke
Hi, distro update should not change Vivaldi settings but maybe different GPU driver.
Open chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
I cant remember if you need to set it to enabled or disabled but you can check quickly.

Had you tried mib2berlin's advice?

With some GPUs and drivers Vivaldi can have issues.

[Persister]

@DoctorG - Disabling it worked! Vivaldi seems to be working fine. I played several videos from Bitchute and YouTube as well. The Tabs are now consistently readable.

vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization

[DoctorG]

@Persister Sometimes enabling the flag helped, sometimes disabling.

Nice to read that you fixed it.

[maironcosta]

@DoctorG thank you, dude. this work for me. I just disable the "Use Hardware Acceleration". it was annoying me!

[fcalegario]

Disabling GPU rasterization worked for me, but Vivaldi perform poorly in some pages. Any chance to adress this problem in another way?

[levithanius]

Disabling hardware acceleration shouldn't be the solution. I don't have this issue on any other chromium-based browser.
Some Youtube videos are almost impossible to watch without hw acceleration.

Running Arch Linux with an Intel i7-1185G7 and Iris Xe GPU (Dell Latitude 7420).

[DoctorG]

@levithanius Welcome in forum

Had you tried with chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
Should be working to get better rendering of the text.
Disable GPU rasterization is not the same as disable hardware Acceleration.

[mib2berlin]

@levithanius
Hi, Vivaldi does not use the Chromium UI, this is maybe the reason why these issues appear for some user.
Works fine for me on two different systems with Opensuse Linux running hardware acceleration.

Did you test enable/disable vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization ?

Cheers, mib

[levithanius]

@DoctorG @mib2berlin

Oh, my bad. I thought GPU rasterization = HW Acceleration. Sorry!
Yes, if I turn it off everything looks fine.
What are the disadvantages of turning it off though?

[DoctorG]

@levithanius Turning of GPU Rasterization?
Rendering of UI and webpages can be slower, depends on CPU.

[DoctorG]

Note for those who read some sepcial information on Software vs. GPU Rasterization in Chromium*

[levithanius]

@DoctorG Everything works great now and I even learned something new today. Thank you!

[DoctorG]

@levithanius Nice to read it helped you

[fcalegario]

@DoctorG Sadly it ins't a option for me. I use the Nextcloud's web client every day and its perform slowly without GPU rasterization

[DoctorG]

@fcalegario And a override of GPU blocklist does not help in your case?
Open chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist
Set to Enabled
Restart

[vmladenov]

In my case I went to vivaldi://flags/#enable-vulkan and I enabled it + restart for now it tabs are rendered fine.

[DoctorG]

@vmladenov Interesting, sometime enabling Vulkan flag causes issues, sometimes it fixes issues in Vivaldi.

[ayhomaru]

@vmladenov Wow thanks a bunch! That actually helped.

[loicm]

The vulkan trick worked for me too!
It's a good thing because i suppose it will preserve battery instead of using CPU when using a laptop without discrete card.

[fcalegario]

@vmladenov @DoctorG It worked! Thank you guys!